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
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
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For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.