Motivational Quotes

Medicine

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

- Charles, Prince Of Wales

Best Quotes about Medicine

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Osler, Sir William

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

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.

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

Tronchin, Theodore

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

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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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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

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He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Proverb

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

Hippocrates

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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Sir William Osler

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

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

Seneca

32.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Sir William Osler

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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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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Richter cartoon caption

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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Illich, Ivan

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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

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

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

Billings, Josh

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To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition --God knows which --dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.

Hahnemann, Samuel

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

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

Mcclenahan, John L.