Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. Hippocrates More Quotes by Hippocrates More Quotes From Hippocrates 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. Hippocrates perseverance reflection art Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause. Hippocrates understanding brain heart Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational. Hippocrates physicians medicine health The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. Hippocrates pain health yellow Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck. Hippocrates medicine good-luck understanding It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another. Hippocrates doctors healing hands I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded. Hippocrates diagnosis lessons science Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates medicine ignorance father From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations Hippocrates laughter grief sports There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance. Hippocrates ignorance two believe Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief. Hippocrates amulets belief prayer The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold. Hippocrates form disease healing What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates humorous fire funny Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. Hippocrates opportunity life long I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. Hippocrates benefits medicine patient What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about. Hippocrates spread may men 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. Hippocrates pain animal men The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates plain-language use writing 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. Hippocrates ignorance practice art Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? Hippocrates structure wine brain
