“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.”

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?

…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.

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.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease

I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.