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The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements

The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.

Hippocrates

Pain, Health, Science

Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.) (1931). “Hippocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Hippocrates

Illness, Fitting, Treatment

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Hippocrates

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Disease, Restriction

Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.699

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

Hippocrates

Character, Men, Inexperience

Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

Hippocrates

Two, Skills, Ignorant

Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.785

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

Hippocrates

Art, Pain, Mean

Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

The art is long, life is short

Hippocrates

Art, Short Life, Life Is Short

Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

Hippocrates

Sacred, Mystery, Persons