It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

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.

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

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food