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Hippocrates
Hippocrates
- Life is short, the art long.Aphorisms sect. 1, para. 1 (tr. W. H. S. Jones); see Chaucer
- Extreme remedies are most appropriate for extreme diseases.Aphorisms sect. 1, para. 6 (tr. W. H. S. Jones)
- When two pains occur together, but not in the same place, the more violent obscures the other.Aphorisms sect 2, no 46
- As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.Epidemics
- I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath and this indenture.The Hippocratic Oath (tr. W. H. S. Jones)
- I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgement, but never with a view to injury or wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.The Hippocratic Oath (tr. W. H. S. Jones)
- I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.The Hippocratic Oath (tr. W. H. S. Jones)
- And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge holding such things to be holy secrets.The Hippocratic Oath
- Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.Precepts ch. 1 (tr. W. H. S. Jones, 1923)
- An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.Prorrhetic
