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Although Hufeland yielded to the prevailing tendency among German physicians of the eighteenth century to adopt doctrines, both in pathology and in therapeutics, which are based upon hypotheses rather than upon facts established by experimentation, or by direct observation at the bedside or at the autopsy, and which as a consequence played a very small part in the genuine advance of the science of medicine, he nevertheless, as I have tried to show in the preceding pages, should be classed as a most useful and honorable member of our profession.

Remember—he is reported to have said to his younger confrères—that there are two maxims which you should keep in mind, viz.:—

1. Natura sanat, medicus curat morbos; (Nature cures disease, the physician merely does what he can to facilitate the operations of nature);

and

2. Ne noceas, si prodesse credis. (In your efforts to afford relief be careful not to do permanent harm.)

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DISTINGUISHED SWISS PHYSICIANS WHO PLAYED A PROMINENT PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF MEDICINE IN GERMANY