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
firsts harm
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
health disease guts
All diseases begin in the gut.
health exercise men
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
health intelligent men
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.
knowledge men sight
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
knowledge medicine firsts
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
disease causes looks
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
physicians lovers equal
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
brain temples made
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.
disease physicians patient
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
time opportunity great-times
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
atheist men thinking
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
polite persons insolent
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
sick healthy physicians
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.