Sport is a preserver of health.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

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