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Hippocrates Biography

Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kṓos; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is often referred to as the "Father of Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy), thus establishing medicine as a profession.

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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

Art, Forth, Leads, Perseverance, Place, Reflection

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Clearness, Detracts, Plain Language, Use, Words, Writing

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Reality, Physicians, Titles, Title

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

Blessing, Blessings, Greatest, Health, Human, Illness

Opposites are cures for opposites.

Opposites, Cures

I swear. . . to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

Brother, Education, Share, Swear, Teacher

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Life, Opportunity, Time, Wherein

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath. . . . Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

Empty, Exercise, Opposite, Opposites, People, Reduce

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Brings, Pain, Silence, Sorrow

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Heal, Heals, Nature, Physicians, Treats

Nature itself is the best physician.

Funny Inspirational, Physicians, Nature, Physician

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

Force, Get Well, Healing, Life, Natural

In all abundance there is lack.

Abundance, Lack

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Wish, Firsts, Helping, Health, Oneself, Away

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

Men, May, Spread, Treatment, Hear, Course

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Former, Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Humankind, Love, Medicine

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

Brain, Heart, Particularly, Sensitive, Understanding

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

Blessings, Food, Greatest, Health, Let, Wise

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

Health, Science, Exercise, Possessing, Produce, Qualities

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