The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

We cannot be damaged into health.

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.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.