The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.