It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

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.