The Philosopher
Hippocrates
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Greek
- Schools:
- Hippocratic school
- Branchs:
- Surgery, Urology, Neurology, Acute medicine, Orthopedics, Clinical medicine
- Period:
- Classical Greece
The synopsis
The works
Hippocratic Corpus
On the Sacred Disease
Hippocratic Oath
Prognosis
On Regimen in Acute Diseases
Aphorisms
On Airs, Waters and Places
Instruments of Reduction
The quotes
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
The art is long, life is short.
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Life is short, the art long.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Many admire, few know.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.