The art is long, life is short

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.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

All disease starts in the gut.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.