For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

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

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

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)