An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.