Hippocrates Quotes

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

The chief virtue that language can have is
clearness, and nothing detracts from it so
much as the use of unfamiliar words.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

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.

When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.

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

الطبيب الذي يحب الحكمة لا يقل عن الآلهة في شيء

In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.

first, the countenance of the patient, if it be like those of persons in health, and more so, if like itself, for this is the best of all; whereas the most opposite to it is the worst, such as the following; a sharp nose, hollow eyes, collapsed temples; the ears cold, contracted, and their lobes turned out: the skin about the forehead being rough, distended, and parched; the color of the whole face being green, black, livid, or lead-colored.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!

La ocasión en fugaz
la experiencia insegura
y el juicio difícil