Sport is a preserver of health.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

All disease starts in the gut.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

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