Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant.

There are no mineral monsters.