Macaulay Somewhere Says, That It Is Extraordinary

Never Give Nor Take An Excuse.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

The Amount Of Relief And Comfort Experienced By The Sick After The Skin Has Been Carefully Washed And Dried, Is One Of The Commonest Observations Made At A Sick Bed.

People Talk About Imitating Christ, And Imitate Him In The Little Trifling Formal Things, Such As Washing The Feet, Saying His Prayer, And So On; But If Anyone Attempts The Real Imitation Of Him, There Are No Bounds To The Outcry With Which The Presumption Of That Person Is Condemned.

If A Patient Is Cold, If A Patient Is Feverish, If A Patient Is Faint, If He Is Sick After Taking Food, If He Has A Bed-sore, It Is Generally The Fault Not Of The Disease, But Of The Nursing.