Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the "Father of Western Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionScientist
medicine drunk people
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
astrology physicians
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
life motivational long
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
funny-inspirational medicine chiropractic
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
philosophical disease remedy
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
exercise opposites people
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
fitness people disease
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
firsts looks sickness
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
life opportunity long
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
medicine humankind
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
evil occupation idleness
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....
ambition wish sake
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
art medicine fruit
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine.
prayer men hands
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.