Many admire, few know.
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
Opposites are cures for opposites.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
Health is the greatest of human blessings.
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.