Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.

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.

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.