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.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.