Hippocrates Quotes About Healing

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  • It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  • Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

  • It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

  • The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

    Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”
  • Rest as soon as there is pain.

    Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

    Life  
  • Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

  • Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

    'Precepts' ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)
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Hippocrates

  • Born: 460 BC
  • Died: 370 BC
  • Occupation: Greek physician