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hippocrates ::: n. --> A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.

hippocrates ::: n. --> A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.

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1:Walking is man's best medicine. ~ Hippocrates,

2:The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ~ Hippocrates,

3:For extreme illnesses extreme remedies are most fitting. ~ Hippocrates,

4:Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. ~ Hippocrates, Law V,

5:Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick. ~ Hippocrates,

6:There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ~ Hippocrates,

7:Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ~ Hippocrates, Regimen Letters On Yoga IV,

8:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus - Tragedies4. Sophocles - Tragedies5. Herodotus - Histories6. Euripides - Tragedies7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings9. Aristophanes - Comedies10. Plato - Dialogues11. Aristotle - Works12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid - Elements14.Archimedes - Works15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections16. Cicero - Works17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things18. Virgil - Works19. Horace - Works20. Livy - History of Rome21. Ovid - Works22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion26. Ptolemy - Almagest27. Lucian - Works28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties30. The New Testament31. Plotinus - The Enneads32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine33. The Song of Roland34. The Nibelungenlied35. The Saga of Burnt Njal36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres43. Thomas More - Utopia44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy58. John Milton - Works59. Molière - Comedies60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal69. William Congreve - The Way of the World70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets ~ Mortimer J Adler,

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1:Ars longa vita brevis ~ Hippocrates,

2:Ars longa, vita brevis ~ Hippocrates,

3:Many admire, few know. ~ Hippocrates,

4:Life is short, art is long. ~ Hippocrates,

5:Life is short, the art long. ~ Hippocrates,

6:Let food be thy your medicine ~ Hippocrates,

7:All disease begins in the gut. ~ Hippocrates,

8:All diseases begin in the gut. ~ Hippocrates,

9:All disease starts in the gut. ~ Hippocrates,

10:Rest as soon as there is pain. ~ Hippocrates,

11:The art is long, life is short ~ Hippocrates,

12:In all abundance there is lack. ~ Hippocrates,

13:Life is short and the art long. ~ Hippocrates,

14:Sport is a preserver of health. ~ Hippocrates,

15:Walking is man's best medicine. ~ Hippocrates,

16:Walking is a man's best medicine. ~ Hippocrates,

17:Divine is the task to relieve pain ~ Hippocrates,

18:Opposites are cures for opposites. ~ Hippocrates,

19:Nature itself is the best physician. ~ Hippocrates,

20:Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm) ~ Hippocrates,

21:The physician treats, but nature heals. ~ Hippocrates,

22:Sometimes give your services for nothing. ~ Hippocrates,

23:To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~ Hippocrates,

24:Everything in excess Is opposed by nature. ~ Hippocrates,

25:Everything in excess is opposed to nature. ~ Hippocrates,

26:Health is the greatest of human blessings. ~ Hippocrates,

27:When in sickness, look to the spine first. ~ Hippocrates,

28:Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. ~ Hippocrates,

29:Look to the seasons when choosing your cures ~ Hippocrates,

30:Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. ~ Hippocrates,

31:War is the only proper school of the surgeon. ~ Hippocrates,

32:Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald. ~ Hippocrates,

33:The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ~ Hippocrates,

34:Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always. ~ Hippocrates,

35:He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war. ~ Hippocrates,

36:If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool. ~ Hippocrates,

37:Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. ~ Hippocrates,

38:The human soul develops up to the time of death. ~ Hippocrates,

39:Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food ~ Hippocrates,

40:Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. ~ Hippocrates,

41:It is better to be full of drink than full of food. ~ Hippocrates,

42:The chief virtue that language can have is clarity. ~ Hippocrates,

43:An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign. ~ Hippocrates,

44:Physicians are many in title but very few in reality. ~ Hippocrates,

45:Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad. ~ Hippocrates,

46:I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. ~ Hippocrates,

47:Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ~ Hippocrates,

48:versions of Hippocrates’ Prognostics, Galen On Foods, and ~ Will Durant,

49:When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom. ~ Hippocrates,

50:For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. ~ Hippocrates,

51:A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god. ~ Hippocrates,

52:Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ~ Hippocrates,

53:Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. ~ Hippocrates,

54:Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. ~ Hippocrates,

55:When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor. ~ Hippocrates,

56:Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind. ~ Hippocrates,

57:The patient must combat the disease along with the physician. ~ Hippocrates,

58:For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art. ~ Hippocrates,

59:Que el alimento sea tu medicina y tu medicina sea tu alimento. ~ Hippocrates,

60:Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. —HIPPOCRATES ~ Scott Jurek,

61:Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ~ Hippocrates,

62:Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ~ Hippocrates,

63:Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. ~ Hippocrates,

64:He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool. ~ Hippocrates,

65:Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ~ Hippocrates,

66:That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away. ~ Hippocrates,

67:The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it ~ Hippocrates,

68:Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. ~ Hippocrates,

69:A cura está ligada ao tempo e, às vezes, também, às circunstâncias. ~ Hippocrates,

70:The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold. ~ Hippocrates,

71:The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all. ~ Hippocrates,

72:To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. ~ Hippocrates,

73:Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. ~ Hippocrates,

74:Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure ~ Hippocrates,

75:La ocasión en fugaz la experiencia insegura y el juicio difícil ~ Hippocrates,

76:What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses. ~ Hippocrates,

77:Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. ~ Hippocrates,

78:Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~ Hippocrates,

79:Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases ~ Hippocrates,

80:Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational. ~ Hippocrates,

81:A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. ~ Hippocrates,

82:Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow. ~ Hippocrates,

83:Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ~ Hippocrates,

84:Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. ~ Hippocrates,

85:Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. ~ Aristotle,

86:There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy. ~ Hippocrates,

87:Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. ~ Hippocrates,

88:Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity. ~ Hippocrates,

89:Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods. ~ Hippocrates,

90:Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ~ Hippocrates,

91:III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died. ~ Marcus Aurelius,

92:The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day. ~ Hippocrates,

93:As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm. ~ Hippocrates,

94:In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery. ~ Hippocrates,

95:Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. ~ Hippocrates,

96:The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. ~ Hippocrates,

97:Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. ~ Hippocrates,

98:For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. ~ Hippocrates,

99:What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. ~ Hippocrates,

100:The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. ~ Hippocrates,

101:A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. ~ Hippocrates,

102:Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ~ Hippocrates,

103:The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. ~ Hippocrates,

104:Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. ~ Hippocrates,

105:Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick. ~ Hippocrates,

106:If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. ~ Hippocrates,

107:Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. ~ Hippocrates,

108:Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. ~ Hippocrates,

109:If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk. ~ Hippocrates,

110:It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. ~ Hippocrates,

111:Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. ~ Hippocrates,

112:It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. ~ Hippocrates,

113:The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. ~ Hippocrates,

114:Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief. ~ Hippocrates,

115:Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? ~ Hippocrates,

116:Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. ~ Hippocrates,

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

118:There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ~ Hippocrates,

119:And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters. ~ Hippocrates,

120:The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. ~ Hippocrates,

121:Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. ~ Hippocrates,

122:In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly. ~ Hippocrates,

123:Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick. Hippocrates (460?-377? B.C.) I ~ S L Viehl,

124:We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. ~ Hippocrates,

125:It’s more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. ~ Hippocrates,

126:But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things! ~ Hippocrates,

127:It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has. ~ Hippocrates,

128:It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. ~ Hippocrates,

129:The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. ~ Hippocrates,

130:How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates. ~ Jean Martin Charcot,

131:The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. ~ Hippocrates,

132:Hippocrates, who recommended that all people in a bad mood should go for a walk—and if it did not improve, walk again. ~ John J Ratey,

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

134:There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance. ~ Hippocrates,

135:From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations ~ Hippocrates,

136:He who does not know food, how can he understand the diseases of man?” —Hippocrates, the father of medicine (460-357 B.C.) ~ T Colin Campbell,

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

138:Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends. ~ Hippocrates,

139:I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. ~ Hippocrates,

140:All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another. ~ Hippocrates,

141:Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century) ~ Terry Deary,

142:Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect. ~ Hippocrates,

143:Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long. ~ Charles Baudelaire,

144:Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably. ~ Hippocrates,

145:The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,

146:A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. ~ Marianne Moore,

147:A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. ~ Hippocrates,

148:Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces. ~ Hippocrates,

149:Hekimlerin babası olan İstanköylü Hipokrat (Hippocrates), asırlar önce (MÖ V. yüzyıl) "Uzun yol yürüyen uzun yaşar" demiş ve ada halkını eşeğe çok bindikleri ~ Anonymous,

150:Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. ~ Hippocrates,

151:All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.  ~ Hippocrates,

152:...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain. ~ Hippocrates,

153:If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. ~ Hippocrates,

154:I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. ~ Hippocrates,

155: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. ~ Hippocrates,

156:Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears. ~ Hippocrates,

157:And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left. ~ Hippocrates,

158:A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses. ~ Hippocrates,

159:I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded. ~ Hippocrates,

160:Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. ~ Hippocrates,

161:Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear. ~ Hippocrates,

162:Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body. ~ Hippocrates,

163:It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time. ~ Hippocrates,

164:When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain. ~ Hippocrates,

165:I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. ~ Hippocrates,

166: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. ~ Hippocrates,

167:The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease. ~ Hippocrates,

168:About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~ Hippocrates,

169:First of all 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. ~ Hippocrates,

170: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,

171:Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe. ~ Hippocrates,

172:If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry. ~ Hippocrates,

173:Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. ~ Hippocrates,

174:Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts. ~ Hippocrates,

175: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,

176:It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,

177:Hippocrates wrote: “Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things. ~ Carl Sagan,

178:Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. ~ Hippocrates,

179:Hekimlerin babası olan İstanköylü Hipokrat (Hippocrates), asırlar önce (MÖ V. yüzyıl) "Uzun yol yürüyen uzun yaşar" demiş ve ada halkını eşeğe çok bindikleri için sağlıklarını kaybedecekleri konusunda uyarmıştır. ~ Anonymous,

180:Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile. Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. ~ Hippocrates,

181:Modern medicine has tended to look back to Hippocrates and Galen as the only ancient source and inspiration of modern medical practice. But this presents a very incomplete picture. As one physician pointed out, ~ Morton T Kelsey,

182:Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. ~ Hippocrates,

183:In a typical passage Hippocrates wrote: 'Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things. ~ Anonymous,

184:It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another. ~ Hippocrates,

185:The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. ~ Hippocrates,

186:On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus. ~ Robert Bellarmine,

187:And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose. ~ Hippocrates,

188: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. ~ Hippocrates,

189:The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves. ~ Hippocrates,

190: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. ~ Hippocrates,

191: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. ~ Hippocrates,

192:despatch from Hippocrates, Mindarus's vice-admiral, (6) had been intercepted on its way to Lacedaemon, and taken to Athens. It ran as follows (in broad Doric): (7) "Ships gone; Mindarus dead; the men starving; at our wits' end what to do. ~ Anonymous,

193:Nor are the earth, water, and other elements, examined by ARISTOTLE, and HIPPOCRATES, more like to those, which at present lie under our observation, than the men, described by POLYBIUS and TACITUS, are to those, who now govern the world. ~ David Hume,

194:a despatch from Hippocrates, Mindarus's vice-admiral, (6) had been intercepted on its way to Lacedaemon, and taken to Athens. It ran as follows (in broad Doric): (7) "Ships gone; Mindarus dead; the men starving; at our wits' end what to do. ~ Anonymous,

195:In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time. ~ Carl Sagan,

196:It is a type of science originally advocated 2,400 years ago by the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance. ~ T Colin Campbell,

197:Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate. ~ Hippocrates,

198:The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over. ~ Hippocrates,

199:All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. ~ Hippocrates,

200: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,

201:It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine. ~ Hippocrates,

202:People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe ~ Hippocrates,

203:a despatch from Hippocrates, Mindarus's vice-admiral, (6) had been intercepted on its way to Lacedaemon, and taken to Athens. It ran as follows (in broad Doric): (7) "Ships gone; Mindarus dead; the men starving; at our wits' end what to do." (6) "Epistoleus," i.e. secretary or ~ Anonymous,

204: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. ~ Hippocrates,

205: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. ~ Hippocrates,

206:Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it. ~ Hippocrates,

207:For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it. ~ Hippocrates,

208:The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. ~ Hippocrates,

209:Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one. ~ Johan Huizinga,

210: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,

211:I had learned something, something not found in Hippocrates, Maimonides, or Osler: the physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence. ~ Paul Kalanithi,

212:Hippocrates obviously never came across any of the people I deal with on a daily basis. If he had, he would have amended that oath to say, I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone. (Unless they’re rolling up on me. In which case, it’s game on, motherfucker.) ~ Callie Hart,

213:Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman. ~ Hippocrates,

214:I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. ~ Hippocrates,

215:The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it found in him an exponent of the highest order. With the increasing materialism of Western civilization, the major tenants of ancient musical therapy have been either forgotten or discarded. ~ Corinne Heline,

216: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. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine". ~ Hippocrates,

217:Though I found this information surprising, this being the Father of Medicine we are talking about, I did not question it. You do not question an author who appears on the title page as “T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C. Path. (Lond.), F.F. Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.” Who knows, perhaps history erred in bestowing upon Hippocrates the title Father of Medicine. ~ Mary Roach,

218:But if I did not know what I wanted, I had learned something, something not found in Hippocrates, Maimonides, or Osler: the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence. ~ Paul Kalanithi,

219:After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena); ~ William Dalrymple,

220:When Egyptian civilization crossed the Mediterranean to become the foundation of Greek culture, the teachings of Imhotep were also absorbed there. But as the Greeks were wont to assert that they were the originators of everything, Imhotep was forgotten for thousands of years and Hippocrates, a legendary figure who lived 2000 years after him, became known as the Father of Medicine. ~ J A Rogers,

221:I didn’t know. But if I did not know what I wanted, I had learned something, something not found in Hippocrates, Maimonides, or Osler: the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence. ~ Paul Kalanithi,

222:Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit. ~ Hippocrates,

223:Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. 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. ~ Hippocrates,

224:Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic. ~ Philip Ball,

225:Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck. ~ Hippocrates,

226: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. ~ Hippocrates,

227: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,

228:what young men in our colleges learn through those of Greek and Latin—that is grammar, rhetoric, and logic. After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena); and, ~ William Dalrymple,

229:Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible. ~ Hippocrates,

230:Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick. ~ Hippocrates,

231:But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception. ~ Hippocrates,

232: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. ~ Hippocrates,

233:In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black. ~ Hippocrates,

234:Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man. ~ Hippocrates,

235:book. Myeloma as a description has its origins with the Greek medical genius Hippocrates, who did the earliest known work on cancer, which he called karkinoma (carcinoma) because the tumors often resembled a crab, karkinos in ancient Greek. In modern descriptions, the condition is complex and treacherous: Plasma cells in the bone marrow become malignant and produce tumors, causing destruction of the bone and resulting in pathologic fracture and pain. A secretory form of the disease is characterized by the presence of Bence-Jones protein, a monoclonal immunoglobulin, which can cause anemia and kidney disease ~ Tom Brokaw,

236:You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway, I'm sad. What would you have me tell you? Man is wicked, man is deformed; the butterfly has succeeded, man has missed. God failed on this animal. A crowd gives you nothing but a choice of ugliness. The first man you meet will be a wretch. 'Femme' rhymes with 'infâme', woman is infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, in addition to melancholy, with nostalgia, plus hypochondria, and I sneer, and I rage, and I yawn, and I'm tired, and I'm bored, and I'm tormented! Let God go to the Devil! ~ Victor Hugo,

237:You are a member of the first generation of doctors in the history of medicine to turn their backs on the oath of Hippocrates and kill millions of old useless people, unborn children, born malformed children, for the good of mankind —and to do so without a single murmur from one of you. Not a single letter of protest in the august New England Journal of Medicine. And do you know what you’re going to end up doing? You a graduate of Harvard and a reader of the New York Times and a member of the Ford Foundation’s Program for the Third World? Do you know what is going to happen to you? . . . You’re going to end up killing Jews. ~ Walker Percy,

238:WONDER WITHOUT WILLPOWER Love’s way becomes a pen sometimes writing g-sounds like gold or r-sounds like tomorrow in different calligraphy styles sliding by, darkening the paper Now it’s held upside down, now beside the head, now down and on to something else, figuring. One sentence saves an illustrious man from disaster, but fame does not matter to the split tongue of a pen. Hippocrates knows how the cure must go. His pen does not. This one I am calling pen, or sometimes flag, has no mind. You, the pen, are most sanely insane. You cannot be spoken of rationally. Opposites are drawn into your presence but not to be resolved. You are not whole or ever complete. You are the wonder without willpower going where you want. ~ Rumi,

239:It was the Greeks who coined the term Amazon. The word literally means “without breast”. It is said that in order to facilitate the drawing of a bow, the female’s right breast was removed, either in early childhood or with a red-hot iron after she became an adult. Even though the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen are said to have agreed that this operation would enhance the ability to use weapons, it is doubtful whether such operations were actually performed. Herein lies a linguistic riddle – whether the prefix “a-” in Amazon does indeed mean “without”. It has been suggested that it means the opposite – that an Amazon was a woman with especially large breasts. Nor is there a single example in any museum of a drawing, amulet or statue of a woman without her right breast, which should have been a common motif had the legend about breast amputation been based on fact. ~ Stieg Larsson,

240:By the end of medical school, most students tended to focus on "lifestyle" specialities - those with more humane hours, higher salaries, and lower pressures - the idealism of their med school application essays tempered or lost. As graduation neared and we sat down, in a Yale tradition, to re-write our commencement oath - a melding of the words of Hippocrates, Maimonides, Osler, along with a few other great medical forefathers - several students argued for the removal of language insisting that we place our patients' interests above our own. (The rest of us didn't allow this discussion to continue for long. The words stayed. This kind of egotism struck me as antithetical to medicine and, it should be noted, entirely reasonable. Indeed, this is how 99 percent of people select their jobs: pay, work environment, hours. But thats the point. Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling). ~ Paul Kalanithi,

241:Hippocrates cured many illnesses—and then fell ill and died. The Chaldaeans predicted the deaths of many others; in due course their own hour arrived. Alexander, Pompey, Caesar—who utterly destroyed so many cities, cut down so many thousand foot and horse in battle—they too departedthis life. Heraclitus often told us the world would end in fire. But it was moisture that carried him off; he died smeared with cowshit. Democritus was killed by ordinary vermin, Socrates by the human kind. And? You boarded, you set sail, you’ve made the passage. Time to disembark. If it’s for another life, well, there’s nowhere without gods on that side either. If to nothingness, then you no longer have to put up with pain and pleasure, or go on dancing attendance on this battered crate, your body—so much inferior to that which serves it. One is mind and spirit, the other earth and garbage. ~ Marcus Aurelius,

242:The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According to Evelyn, "the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman prætors have decided how often you may go into your neighbor's land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor." Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone? ~ Henry David Thoreau,

243:To The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him. Nay, do not silently reproach him in consequence of others' censure, nor employ your wit in foolish disapproval or false accusation. For, should Democritus Junior prove to be what he professes, even a kinsman of his elder namesake, or be ever so little of the same kidney, it is all up with you: he will become both accuser and judge of you in his petulant spleen, will dissipate you in jest, pulverize you with witticisms, and sacrifice you, I can promise you, to the God of Mirth. Again I warn you against cavilling, lest, while you culumniate or disgracefully disparage Decmocritus Junior, who has no animosity against you, you should hear from some judicious friend the very words the people of Abdera heard of old from Hippocrates, when they held their well-deserving and popular fellow-citizen to be a madman: "Truly, it is you, Democritus, that are wise, while the people of Abdera are fools and madmen." You have no more sense than the people of Abdera. Having given you this warning in a few words, O reader who employ your liesure ill, farewell. ~ Robert Burton,

244: Democritus And His Neighbors IN Vulgar Minds what Errors do arise! How diff'ring are the Notions, they possess, From theirs, whom better Sense do's bless, Who justly are enroll'd amongst the Learn'd and Wise! Democritus, whilst he all Science taught, Was by his foolish Neighbors thought Distracted in his Wits; Who call his speculative Flights, His solitary Walks in starry Nights, But wild and frantick Fits. Bless me, each cries, from such a working Brain! And to Hippocrates they send The Sage's long-acquainted Friend, To put in Tune his jarring Mind again, And Pericranium mend. Away the Skilful Doctor comes Of Recipes and Med'cines full, To check the giddy Whirl of Nature's Fires, If so th' unruly Case requires; Or with his Cobweb-cleansing Brooms To sweep and clear the over-crouded Scull, If settl'd Spirits flag, and make the Patient dull. But asking what the Symptoms were, That made 'em think he was so bad? The Man indeed, they cry'd, is wond'rous Mad. You, at this Distance, may behold him there Beneath that Tree in open Air, Surrounded with the Engines of his Fate, The Gimcracks of a broken Pate. Those Hoops a Sphere he calls, That Ball the Earth; And when into his raving Fit he falls, 'Twou'd move at once your Pity, and your Mirth, To hear him, as you will do soon, Declaring, there's a Kingdom in the Moon; And that each Star, for ought he knows, May some Inhabitants enclose: Philosophers, he says, may there abound, Such Jugglers as himself be in them found; 60 Which if there be, the World may well turn round; At least to those, whose Whimsies are so strange, That, whilst they're fixt to one peculiar Place, Pretend to measure far extended Space, And 'mongst the Planets range. Behold him now contemplating that Head, From which long-since both Flesh, and Brains are fled; Questioning, if that empty, hollow Bowl Did not ere while contain the Human Soul: Then starts a Doubt, if 't were not to the Heart That Nature rather did that Gift impart. Good Sir, employ the utmost of your Skill, To make him Wiser, tho' against his Will; Who thinks, that he already All exceeds, And laughs at our most solemn Words and Deeds: Tho' once amongst us he wou'd try a Cause, And Bus'ness of the Town discuss, Knowing as well as one of us, The Price of Corn, and standing Market-Laws; Wou'd bear an Office in his Turn, For which good Purposes all Men were born; Not to be making Circles in the Sand, And scaling Heav'n, till they have sold their Land; Or, when unstock'd below their Pasture lies, To find out Bulls and Rams, amidst the Skies. From these Mistakes his Madness we conclude; And hearing, you was with much Skill endu'd, Your Aid we sought. Hippocrates amaz'd, Now on the Sage, now on the Rabble gaz'd; And whilst he needless finds his artful Rules, Pities a Man of Sense, judg'd by a Croud of Fools. Then how can we with their Opinions join, Who, to promote some Int'rest, wou'd define The People's Voice to be the Voice Divine? ~ Anne Kingsmill Finch,

245: For Louis Pasteur How shall a generation know its story If it will know no other? When, among The scoffers at the Institute, Pasteur Heard one deny the cause of child-birth fever, Indignantly he drew upon the blackboard, For all to see, the Streptococcus chain. His mind was like Odysseus and Plato Exploring a new cosmos in the old As if he wrote a poem--his enemy Suffering, disease, and death, the battleground His introspection. "Science and peace," he said, "Will win out over ignorance and war," But then, the virus mutant in his vein, "Death to the Prussian!" and "revenge, revenge!" How shall my generation tell its story? Their fathers jobless, boys for the CCC And NYA, the future like a stairwell To floors without a window or a door, And then the army: bayonet drill and foxhole; Bombing to rubble cities with textbook names Later to bulldoze streets for; their green bodies Drowned in the greener surfs of rumored France. My childhood friend, George Humphreys, whom I still see Still ten years old, his uncombed hair and grin Moment by moment in the Hürtgen dark Until the one step full in the sniper's sight, His pastor father emptied by the grief. Clark Harrison, at nineteen a survivor, Never to walk or have a child or be A senator or governor. Herr Wegner, Who led his little troop, their standards high And sabers drawn, against a panzer corps, Emerging from among the shades at Dachau Stacked like firewood for someone else to burn; And Gerd Radomski, listening to broadcasts Of names, a yearlong babel of the missing, To find his wife and children. Then they came home, Near middle age at twenty-two, to find 18 A new reunion of the church and state, Cynical Constantines who need no name, Domestic tranquility beaten to a sword, Sons wasted by another lie in Asia, Or Strangeloves they had feared that August day; And they like runners, stung, behind a flag, Running within a circle, bereft of joy. Hearing of the disaster at Sedan And the retreat worse than the one from Moscow, Their son among the missing or the dead, Pasteur and his wife Mary hired a carriage And, traveling to the east where he might try His way to Paris, stopping to ask each youth And comfort every orphan of the state's Irascibility, found him at last And, unsurprised, embraced and took him in. Two wars later, the Prussian, once again The son of Mars, in Paris, Joseph Meister-The first boy cured of rabies, now the keeper Of Pasteur's mausoleum--when commanded To open it for them, though over seventy, Lest he betray the master, took his life. I like to think of Pasteur in Elysium Beneath the sunny pine of ripe Provence Tenderly raising black sheep, butterflies, Silkworms, and a new culture, for delight, Teaching his daughter to use a microscope And musing through a wonder--sacred passion, Practice and metaphysic all the same. And, each year, honor three births: Valéry, Humbling his pride by trying to write well, Mozart, who lives still, keeping my attention Repeatedly outside the reach of pride, And him whose mark I witness as a trust. Others he saves but could not save himself-Socrates, Galen, Hippocrates--the spirit Fastened by love upon the human cross. ~ Edgar Bowers,

246:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit] 1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey 2. The Old Testament 3. Aeschylus – Tragedies 4. Sophocles – Tragedies 5. Herodotus – Histories 6. Euripides – Tragedies 7. Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War 8. Hippocrates – Medical Writings 9. Aristophanes – Comedies 10. Plato – Dialogues 11. Aristotle – Works 12. Epicurus – Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus 13. Euclid – Elements 14. Archimedes – Works 15. Apollonius of Perga – Conic Sections 16. Cicero – Works 17. Lucretius – On the Nature of Things 18. Virgil – Works 19. Horace – Works 20. Livy – History of Rome 21. Ovid – Works 22. Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia 23. Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania 24. Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic 25. Epictetus – Discourses; Encheiridion 26. Ptolemy – Almagest 27. Lucian – Works 28. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations 29. Galen – On the Natural Faculties 30. The New Testament 31. Plotinus – The Enneads 32. St. Augustine – On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine 33. The Song of Roland 34. The Nibelungenlied 35. The Saga of Burnt Njál 36. St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica 37. Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy 38. Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales 39. Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks 40. Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy 41. Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly 42. Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 43. Thomas More – Utopia 44. Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises 45. François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel 46. John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion 47. Michel de Montaigne – Essays 48. William Gilbert – On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies 49. Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote 50. Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene 51. Francis Bacon – Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis 52. William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays 53. Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences 54. Johannes Kepler – Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World 55. William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals 56. Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan 57. René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy 58. John Milton – Works 59. Molière – Comedies 60. Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises 61. Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light 62. Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics 63. John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education 64. Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies 65. Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics 66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology 67. Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe 68. Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal 69. William Congreve – The Way of the World 70. George Berkeley – Principles of Human Knowledge 71. Alexander Pope – Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man 72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws 73. Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary 74. Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones 75. Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets ~ Mortimer J Adler,

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   2 Philosophy
   1 Christianity
   1 Alchemy


   2 Sri Aurobindo
   2 Carl Jung


   2 The Secret Doctrine
   2 Aion

1.01_-_Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy      The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According to Evelyn, the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman prtors have decided how often you may go into your neighbors land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor. Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But mans capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

1.02_-_The_Three_European_Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral      Space is the insistent concern of this era. In underscoring this assertion, we have relied only on the testimony of its most vivid manifestation, the discovery of perspective. We did, however, mention in passing that at the very moment when Leonardo discovers space and solves the problem of perspective, thereby creating the possibility for spatial objectification in painting, other events occur which parallel his discovery. Copernicus, for example, shatters the limits of the geocentric sky and discovers heliocentric space; Columbus goes beyond the encompassing Oceanos and discovers earth's space: Vesalius, the first major anatomist, bursts the confines of Galen's ancient doctrines of the human Body and discovers the body's space; Harvey destroys the precepts of Hippocrates' humoral medicine and reveals the circulatory system. And there is Kepler, who by demonstrating the elliptical orbit of the planets, overthrows antiquity's unperspectival world-image of circular and flat surfaces (a view still held by Copernicus) that dated back to Ptolemy's conception of the circular movement of the planets.

1.04_-_The_First_Circle,_Limbo_Virtuous_Pagans_and_the_Unbaptized._The_Four_Poets,_Homer,_Horace,_Ovid,_and_Lucan._The_Noble_Castle_of_Philosophy., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity   Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy,   Galen, Hippocrates, and Avicenna,   Averroes, who the great Comment made.

1.08_-_RELIGION_AND_TEMPERAMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      In the course of the last thirty centuries many attempts have been made to work out a classification system in terms of which human differences could be measured and described. For example, there is the ancient Hindu method of classifying people according to the psycho-physico-social categories of caste. There are the primarily medical classifications associated with the name of Hippocrates, classifications in terms of two main habitsthe phthisic and the apoplecticor of the four humours (blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile) and the four qualities (hot, cold, moist and dry). More recently there have been the various physiognomic systems of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the crude and merely psychological dichotomy of introversion and extraversion; the more complete, but still inadequate, psycho-physical classifications proposed by Kretschmer, Stockard, Viola and others; and finally the system, more comprehensive, more flexibly adequate to the complex facts than all those which preceded it, worked out by Dr. William Sheldon and his collaborators.      --      This simple dichotomy is a classification of human differences that is valid so far as it goes. But like all such dichotomies, whether physical (like Hippocrates division of humanity into those of phthisic and those of apoplectic habit) or psychological (like Jungs classification in terms of introvert and extravert), this grouping of the religious into those who think and those who act, those who follow the way of Martha and those who follow the way of Mary, is inadequate to the facts. And of course no director of souls, no head of a religious organization, is ever, in actual practice, content with this all too simple system. Underlying the best Catholic writing on prayer and the best Catholic practice in the matter of recognizing vocations and assigning duties, we sense the existence of an implicit and unformulated classification of human differences more complete and more realistic than the explicit dichotomy of action and contemplation.

1.13_-_Gnostic_Symbols_of_the_Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology      56 According to Hippocrates, a boy at seven years old is half a father. (Elenchos,   V, 7, 21.)

1.15_-_Index, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology      Hippocrates, 20m

4.2_-_Karma, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    physical consciousness has been contaminated by the mental aberrations of the civilised?   393. We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates & their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocuspocus as our physical gospel.

Agenda_Vol_11, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   393 We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and   Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous   Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel.

BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   modern descendant. It is only of late that modern Science began to widen with every year the abyss   that now separates her from old Science, that of the Plinies and Hippocrateses, none of whom would   have derided the archaic teachings with respect to the evolution of the human races and animal species,

BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   these mysteries. Those who are not acquainted with the new discovery of Professor Weissman -- at one   time a fervent Darwinist -- ought to hasten to repair the deficiency. The German Embryologistphilosopher shows -- thus stepping over the heads of the Greek Hippocrates and Aristotle, right back   into the teachings of the old Aryans -- one infinitesimal cell, out of millions of others at work in the

COSA_-_BOOK_IV, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   earliest years studied that art, so as to make it the profession whereby   he should live, and that, understanding Hippocrates, he could soon have   understood such a study as this; and yet he had given it over, and taken

Evening_Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Sri Aurobindo: (smiling) He was the physician of the Gods and so nothing is unnatural for him. (laughter) (after a pause) Ayurveda is the first system of medicine; it originated in India. Medicine, mathematical notation and astrology all went from India to Arabia, and from there they travelled to Greece. There three humours of which Hippocrates and Galen speak are an Indian idea.

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1, #unset, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism   science went to Greece and then to Arabia. Indian physicians used to go to   Arabia. What Hippocrates and Galen speak of as the three humours is an Indian idea. India also discovered the use of the zero with mathematical notations. Astrology too went from India to Arabia.   NIRODBARAN: At Calcutta, people are trying to found Ayurvedic schools. That

The_Act_of_Creation_text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology   ponent of the hihe de la revanche became the greatest benefactor of   mankind since Hippocrates.

The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers, #unset, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism   Paracelsus, we will only mention: Thomson ( Epilogismi Chimici, Leyden,1673); Welling   (Opera Cabalistica, Hamburg,1735); Tackenius ( Hippocrates Chimicus, Venice, 1666);   Digby ( Secreta Medica, Frankfurt, 1676); Starkey ( Pyrotechnia , Rouen, 1706); Vigani

The_Monadology, #unset, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism       61. And compounds are in this respect analogous with [symbolisent avec] simple substances. For all is a plenum (and thus all matter is connected together) and in the plenum every motion has an effect upon distant bodies in proportion to their distance, so that each body not only is affected by those which are in contact with it and in some way feels the effect of everything that happens to them, but also is mediately affected by bodies adjoining those with which it itself is in immediate contact. Wherefore it follows that this inter-communication of things extends to any distance, however great. And consequently every body feels the effect of all that takes place in the universe, so that he who sees all might read in each what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened or shall happen, observing in the present that which is far off as well in time as in place: sympnoia panta, as Hippocrates said. But a soul can read in itself only that which is there represented distinctly; it cannot all at once unroll everything that is enfolded in it, for its complexity is infinite.