Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Many admire, few know.

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

When in sickness, look to the spine first.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

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

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hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.