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

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

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

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.

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.

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.

When in sickness, look to the spine first.