Philosophical Sayings

The blood, in truth, is the fountain of life, the first to move and the last to rest.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The heart by its pulsific action moves, perfects, and cherishes the blood, and preserves it from corruption and coagulation.

It is not simply by chance that the heart is placed in the midst of the body, as if it were the sun of the microcosm.

The circulation of the blood is a discovery that overthrows all the ancient doctrines of medicine.

Nature is a free and open book, to be read and understood by all who have the patience and the power to do so.

The knowledge of man is as the waters, some shallow and some deep.

The art of medicine is to be learned only by experience and observation.

He who studies anatomy knows more than he who studies books.

We are taught by nature to begin with the simple and proceed to the complex.

The animal body is a commonwealth, in which every member is a subject to the whole.

The blood is the very bond of the soul, and the soul itself.

Without the circulation of the blood, there can be no true life.

There is no science which does not spring from pre-existing knowledge, and no certain and definite idea which has not derived its origin from the senses.

Man comes into the world naked and unarmed, as if nature had destined him for a social creature, and ordained him to live under equitable laws and in peace...

The studious and good and true, never suffer their minds to be warped by the passions of hatred and envy, which unfit men duly to weigh the arguments that are advanced in behalf of truth, or to appreciate the proposition that is even fairly demonstra…

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.

The heart is the beginning of life; the sun of the microcosm, even as the sun in his turn might well be designated the heart of the world; for it is the heart by whose virtue and pulse the blood is moved, perfected, made apt to nourish, and is preser…

The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microc…

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…