"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 tha…"

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

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

"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. 13…"

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