Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

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

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

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.