When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

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.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

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