Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Walking is man's best medicine.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

The art is long, life is short.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Life is short, the art long.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Many admire, few know.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body and are in a great measure sensible of the pain are disordered in intellect.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

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

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

Cure sometimes treat often comfort always.

The life so short the craft so long to learn.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Divine is the task to relieve pain.

Men think epilepsy divine merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand why there would be no end to divine things.

Men think epilepsy divine merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise not too little and not too much we would have found the safest way to health.

Healing is a matter of time but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Let food be thy medicine thy medicine shall be thy food.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Healing in a matter of time but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have the safest way to health.