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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
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Hippokrates
Hippokrates of Kos
Hippocrates of Cos
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
Hippocrates
Make a habit of two things: to help or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.
Hippocrates
Life is short and the art long.
Hippocrates
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
Hippocrates
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates
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.
Hippocrates
The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
Hippocrates
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
Hippocrates
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
Hippocrates
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
Hippocrates
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
Hippocrates
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
Hippocrates
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
Hippocrates
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
Hippocrates
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
Hippocrates