Hippocrates Quotes

[W]e ought not to reject the ancient Art, as if it were not, and had not been properly founded, because it did not attain accuracy in all things, but rather, since it is capable of reaching to the greatest exactitude by reasoning, to receive it and admire its discoveries, made from a state of great ignorance, and as having been well and properly made, and not from chance.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Que el alimento sea tu medicina y tu medicina sea tu alimento.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. 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.

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

A cura está ligada ao tempo e, às vezes, também, às circunstâncias.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

There is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife

ARS LONG, VITA BREVIS

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, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe