When in sickness, look to the spine first.

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

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

It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

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

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.