Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland quotes
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“Laughter is the most healthful exertion.”
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“My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.”
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“If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.”
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“Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.”
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“The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.”
-- Christoph Wilhelm HufelandSource : Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1854). “Hufeland's art of prolonging life”, p.99
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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“The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ...”
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