In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery. - Hippocrates

Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

Life is short,
[the] art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.