Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
