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
education art science
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...
fitness workout exercise
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
art pain mean
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.
science opposites would-be
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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.