Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.