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1 " People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe "
― Hippocrates
2 " There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. "
3 " The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. "
4 " As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm. "
5 " In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly. "
― Hippocrates , Aforizmalar
6 " Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect. "
7 " If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. "
8 " The life so short, the craft so long to learn. "
9 " For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it. "
― Hippocrates , Hippocratic Writings
10 " What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses. "
11 " Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. "
12 " Let food be thy your medicine "
13 " Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad. "
14 " Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably. "
15 " Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. "
16 " Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. "
17 " Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald. "
― Hippocrates , Hippocrates | Galen (Great Books of the Western World, #10)
18 " The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. "
19 " It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. "
20 " Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always. "
