Many admire, few know.

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

I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.