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.

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.

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

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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

Many admire, few know.