To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. Hippocrates More Quotes by Hippocrates More Quotes From Hippocrates All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another. Hippocrates excesshealthynature Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. Hippocrates philosophicalinspiringanimal 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. Hippocrates atheistmotivationalinspirational Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine". Hippocrates fruitmedicineart Physicians are many in title but very few in reality. Hippocrates titlesphysiciansreality Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. Hippocrates holymen ...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. Hippocrates powerfulbrainfall Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. Hippocrates ironmedicinefire Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. Hippocrates medicalphysicianscontentment The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. Hippocrates physicianshealthysick In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black. Hippocrates eyeselfyellow Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. Hippocrates healthywinemen It is better to be full of drink than full of food. Hippocrates drink Opposites are cures for opposites. Hippocrates curesopposites All disease begins in the gut. Hippocrates gutsdisease Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. Hippocrates funny-inspirationalmedicinehealthy And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose. Hippocrates principlesoppositesscience Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. Hippocrates diseasecauseslooks The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. Hippocrates physicianspatientdisease The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all. Hippocrates medicinehealthnatural
