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Width Of Life Is More Important Than Length Of Life.

The Theory Of Medicine, Therefore, Presents What Is Useful In Thought, But Does Not Indicate How It Is To Be Applied In Practice-the Mode Of Operation Of These Principles. The Theory, When Mastered, Gives Us A Certain Kind Of Knowledge. Thus We Say, For Example, There Are Three Forms Of Fevers And Nine Constitutions. The Practice Of Medicine Is Not The Work Which The Physician Carries Out, But Is That Branch Of Medical Knowledge Which, When Acquired, Enables One To Form An Opinion Upon Which To Base The Proper Plan Of Treatment.

Disease Is An Abnormal State Of The Body Which Primarily And Independently Produces A Disturbance In The Normal Functions Of The Body. It May Be An Abnormality Of Temperament Or Form (structure). Symptom Is A Manifestation Of Some Abnormal State In The Body. It May Be Harmful As A Colic Pain Or Harmless As The Flushing Of Cheeks In Peripneumonia.

In God Alone, Essence (what He Is) And Existence (that He Is) Coincide.

The Knowledge Of Anything, Since All Things Have Causes, Is Not Acquired Or Complete Unless It Is Known By Its Causes.