Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland was a German physician, naturopath and writer. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and a cultivated critical faculty.

German - Physician | August 12, 1762 - August 25, 1836

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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

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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

Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland