Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

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

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.