Hippocrates

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Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC - 377 BC), an ancient Greek physician that some have called the "father of medicine."

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Attributed

  • "As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm."
  • "Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
  • "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
  • "It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
  • "Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
  • "To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
  • "Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
  • "Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
  • "If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
  • "Let your food be medicine and your medicine be food."
  • "Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
  • "There are, in fact, two things: science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
  • "He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool."
  • "Art is long; life is short; opportunity is fleeting; judgement is difficult; experience is deceitful."
  • "People believe that this disease is sacred simply because they don't know what causes it? But some day I believe they will, and the moment they figure out why people have epilepsy, it will cease to be considered divine."
  • "Walking is man's best medicine."
  • "Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil."
  • "For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception."
  • "But conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit."
  • "I approve of theorizing if it lays its foundation in incident, and deduces its conclusions in accordance with phenomena."


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