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

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

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

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