And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

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

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.