All diseases begin in the gut. Hippocrates More Quotes by Hippocrates More Quotes From Hippocrates Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Hippocrates opportunity time life When in sickness, look to the spine first. Hippocrates sickness looks firsts Look to the seasons when choosing your cures Hippocrates seasons cures looks Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. Hippocrates idleness occupation evil But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception. Hippocrates fashion science mean Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible. Hippocrates giving science long Many admire, few know. Hippocrates admire knows reality The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Hippocrates motivational inspirational life Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. Hippocrates sick house men 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. Hippocrates men science knowledge An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign. Hippocrates insolent polite persons I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. Hippocrates medicine science knowledge War is the only proper school of the surgeon. Hippocrates total-war war school A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god. Hippocrates physicians equal lovers Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. Hippocrates ignorance science knowledge I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. Hippocrates brother education teacher In all abundance there is lack. Hippocrates abundance Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates philosophical disease health For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. Hippocrates desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures restriction disease There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death. Hippocrates pain mean art
