Galen

All parts of the body are formed in the semen.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

The mind's inclination follows the body's temperature.

But it is best of all to look at the human skeleton with your own eyes. This is very easy in Alexandria, so that the physicians of that area instruct their pupils with the aid of autopsy.

We therefore assume that it is either a text from the Roman physician Galen, or an unknown commentary on his work... describing a bizarre theory on hysteria by the Greco-Roman physician Galen (A.D. 130 –210)... that hysteria was caused by a 'wandering womb.' Instead, he thought women became hysterical, and could suffer from 'hysterical suffocation,' or apnea, when they stopped having intercourse.

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

The great horde of physicians are always servile imitators, who can neither perceive nor correct the faults of their system, and are always ready to growl at and even to worry the ingenious person that could attempt it. Thus was the system of Galen secured in the possession of the schools of physic.

Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.