Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
The physician treats, but nature heals.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
Sport is a preserver of health.
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.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.