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Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
(12 Aug 1762 - 25 Aug 1836)
German physician and writer who gained an international reputation. He was Professor at Jena (1793-1801), and then Berlin (from 1801). He wrote on scientific subjects, but also on Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller.
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Science Quotes by Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (2 quotes)
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.
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
In George Moody, The English Journal of Education (1858), New Series, 12 , 411.
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.
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Quoted by E.T.M. Hurlbut, 'Homeopathy, Hygiene, and Opium,' Address at Annual Meeting of the Nebraska State Homeopathic Medical Association, 19 May 1874. In William Riddle Childs, et al., Pamphlets - Homeopathic (1851), Vol. 6, 3.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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