Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.