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

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

In all abundance there is lack.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.