There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

All pain is one malady with many names.

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.