“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”

Divine is the task to relieve pain

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.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

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.

Walking is a man’s best medicine.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Maybe it won’t be cured, but you’ve got to take the medication you’re prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable.

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone.