Hypocrites, 500 BC:
“Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination.”
Dr. Charles H. Mayo, M.D., the well known and highly respected physician, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic:
“We are all afraid of germs because we are all ignorant of them. Germs are outside. What we should be afraid of is lowered resistance which comes from within. The folly of our topsy-turvy notion leads to much preventable confusion and despair. Instead of developing a proper respect for our own extraordinary powers, conferred upon us by Mother Nature, we endow germs with unnatural powers which they should not possess.”