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Hippocrates
(c. 460 B.C. - c. 370 B.C.)
Greek physician who is associated with the Hippocratic Writings which, in fact, are the work of a large number of anonymous medical writers. Attempts to distinguish the specific works of Hippocrates himself have been unsuccessful due to poor available evidence.
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Hippocrates Quotes on Disease (8 quotes)
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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.
— Hippocrates
Affections, in Hippocrates, trans. P. Potter (1988), Vol. 5, 7.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.
— Hippocrates
Epidemics, in Hippocrates, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1923), Vol. I, 165.
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
Diseases, in Hippocrates, trans. P. Potter (1988), Vol. 5, 113.
I am about to discuss the disease called “sacred”. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
— Hippocrates
From 'The Sacred Disease', in Hippocrates, trans. W.H.S. Jones (1923), Vol. 2, 139.
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
Prognostic, in Hippocrates, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1923), Vol. 2, 9.
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
— Hippocrates
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
— Hippocrates
Nature of Man, in Hippocrates, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1931), Vol. 4, 7.
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
Breaths, in Hippocrates, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1923), Vol. 2, 227.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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