Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

in the chauvinistic atmosphere after the First World War, when everything German and Soviet became vilified, attitudes hardened and the AMA came out against.

similia similibus curantur – let like be cured by like.

Nature was benign and, if only people heeded her laws, bodies would naturally be well.

Sickness was not fundamentally and qualitatively different from health; rather sickness set in when normal functions went awry.

the smaller the dose, the more efficacious the medicine.