It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.