Hippocrates Quotes

“Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic.”
― Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

“I imagine what it was like in the time of Hippocrates.
- Good morning, doctor. I have a headache. Tell me an aphorism.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle
Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.”
― Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

“It should be our first duty to study philosophy, if we are to be true followers of Hippocrates. And if we do this, nothing can prevent us from becoming like him, and indeed even better than he was; learning the things that he has so well set down, and ourselves discovering those that remain. (from the essay "That the Best Physician Is Also a Philosopher")”
― Galen

“What reason, then, remains why the doctor, who practises the Art in a manner worthy of Hippocrates, should not be a philosopher? For since, in order to discover the nature of the body, and the distinctions between diseases, and the indications for remedies, he must exercise his mind in rational thought, and since, so that he may persevere laboriously in the practice of these things, he must despise riches and exercise temperance, he must already possess all the parts of philosophy: the logical, the scientific, and the ethical. Nor need he fear, if he condemns riches and lives temperately, that he will be doing something out of place; for all the rash and unjust things that men do, they do because they are seduced by covetousness, or bewitched by pleasure. So he must of necessity have the other virtues as well; for they are all connected, and it is not possible to take any one of them without all the others following at once, as if strung on a single thread. (from the essay "That the Best Physician Is Also a Philosopher")”
― Galen