Doctor Quotes by Herbert M. Shelton

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

— Herbert M. Shelton

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

— Herbert M. Shelton

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

— Herbert M. Shelton

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are…

— Herbert M. Shelton

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

— Herbert M. Shelton

We cannot be damaged into health.

— Herbert M. Shelton

“There are no healing agents.”

— Herbert M. Shelton

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete…

— Herbert M. Shelton

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it…

— Herbert M. Shelton

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks…

— Herbert M. Shelton

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

— Herbert M. Shelton

“You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results. ”

— Herbert M. Shelton

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease…

— Herbert M. Shelton

If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of…

— Herbert M. Shelton

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

— Herbert M. Shelton