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

"The best physician is also a philosopher."

"The patient should be made to understand that he is sick from natural causes, and not from the gods."

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

"If you cut open a man and find his liver black as pitch, he will die within seven days."