Hippocrates

Hippocrates

Physician

Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician known as the 'Father of Medicine' for his contributions to medical ethics and clinical practice.

Medicine Health Art Men Disease Science
Born
c. 460 BC
Died
c. 370 BC
Quotes
158
Rank
#459

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"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."

Perseverance Art Reflection
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"It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time."

Cancer Dark Long
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"Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces."

Years Medicine Wish
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"Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald."

Gout Eunuchs
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"All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another."

Nature Healthy Excess
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"Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them."

Funny Fitness Humor
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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."

Brain Temples Made
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"And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters."

Statistics Matter States
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"He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool."

Doctors Astrology Doe
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"I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art."

Art Doctors Views
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"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."

Two Views Special
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"The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease."

Art Physicians Three
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"The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over."

Pain Men Animal
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"Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?"

Wine Brain Structure
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"Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind."

Medicine Humankind
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