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

"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 …"

"The body is the instrument of the soul."

"There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses."

"The causes of diseases are often hidden, and to find them requires much labor and diligence."