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.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.