Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC)
The ancient Greek physician who pulled medicine out of the realm of priests and philosophers and made it a profession grounded in observation. Twenty-five centuries later, doctors still swear oaths attributed to him.
Hippocrates of Kos lived from roughly 460 to 370 BC, a Greek physician and philosopher named after his grandfather. He and his school revolutionized medicine by separating it from theurgy and philosophy, establishing it as a distinct discipline built on prognosis, clinical observation, and the systematic categorization of diseases. His work laid groundwork for specialties including surgery, urology, neurology, and orthopedics, though his humoral theory was later discredited. The Hippocratic Corpus, works associated with him, codified the medical knowledge of earlier schools and set standards f…
Sourced, dated quotes from Hippocrates
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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