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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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
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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.