Motivational Quotes

Medicine

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? [Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5]

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Best Quotes about Medicine

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country.

Loffler, Charles Lyman

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Mcclenahan, John L.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

Billings, Josh

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Lewis, Joe E.

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Osler, Sir William

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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.

Charles, Prince Of Wales

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Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

Kocher, Gerhard

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While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.

Kent, James Tyler

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God help the patient.

Mansfield, Lord

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From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but thefurtherextension of the health system.

Kocher, Gerhard

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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced. Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.

Krebs, Jr., Ernst T.

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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

19.

In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.

Tronchin, Theodore

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

21.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Garth, Sir Samuel

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Sir William Osler

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I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

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Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus, Philipus A.

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Nightingale, Florence

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Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

Jewish Proverb

33.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca

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Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

Cousins, Norman

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

Paul, Jean

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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

39.

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? [Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5]

Bible

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Sleep is better than medicine.

42.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Hippocrates

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Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

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She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

West, Rebecca

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Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation.

Delort, Maurice

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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Shakespeare, William

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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.