Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?