When in sickness, look to the spine first.

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

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

All diseases begin in the gut.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

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.