Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.