A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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.