All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

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.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.