At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.