Opposites are cures for opposites.

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.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

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.

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.