Quote of the Day: "Medical authors have generally written in a foreign language; and those who were unequal to the task, have even valued themselves upon couching, at least, their prescriptions, in terms and characters unintelligible to the rest of mankind ....Disguising medicine not only retards its improvement as a science, but exposes the profession to ridicule, and is injurious to the true interests of society ....The cure of disease is doubtless a matter of great importance; but the preservation of health is of still greater ....It is not to be supposed, that men can be sufficiently upon their guard against diseases, who are totally ignorant of their causes .....Indeed, men of every occupation and condition of life might avail themselves of a degree of medical knowledge ....."
-Dr William Buchan , Domestic Medicine, 1784

Bet he'd have a blog if he were alive today. (As would this guy.)