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

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

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.

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

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

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

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