A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

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