Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.

In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.