205 Quotes by Hippocrates

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!

Divine is the task to relieve pain.

Primum non nocere.

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.

Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that make him sick.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.