Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

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

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

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