Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

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.

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

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

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