All disease begins in the gut.

All disease begins in the gut.

It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

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.