War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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.
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.