"If there is one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are fifteen operations, you know that none of th…"

"Tradition is a persuasive teacher, even when what it teaches is erroneous."

"In its own unhurried way, age soundlessly and with persistence treads ever closer behind us on slippered feet, catche…"

"Long after the theories on which they were based had been debunked, Galen's concepts of sickness and its treatment co…"

"Of hundreds of known diseases and their predisposing characteristics, some 85% of our aging population will succumb t…"

"With deep sedation or the blessed respite of terminal coma that comes to some at the end of a difficult struggle, the…"

"The tendency toward mysticism is ingrained in human nature. Superstition, religion, and medicine have made their long…"

"The later decades of a life become the time for our capabliites to find an unscattered focus, and in this way increas…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"