As the child does not know how to be cured, he knows how to be ill. The
one art takes the place of the other and is often more successful; it is
the art of nature. When a beast is ill, it keeps quiet and suffers in
silence; but we see fewer sickly animals than sick men. How many men
have been slain by impatience, fear, anxiety, and above all by medicine,
men whom disease would have spared, and time alone have cured. I shall
be told that animals, who live according to nature, are less liable to
disease than ourselves. Well, that way of living is just what I mean to
teach my pupil; he should profit by it in the same way. Hygiene is the
only useful
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