The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

All diseases begin in the gut.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.