And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

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.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

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