Motivational Quotes

Medicine

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Medicine

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

Alice James

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

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Sir William Osler

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Butler, Samuel

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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 knows no limits, especially not its own.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Marx, Karl

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander The Great

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

Shakespeare, William

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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Proverb, French

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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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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tronchin, Theodore

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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.

Kocher, Gerhard

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Osler, Sir William

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Sleep is better than medicine.

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

Mcclenahan, John L.

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

Jewish Proverb

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To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Linnaeus, Carolus

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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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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.

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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Medicines are only fit for old people.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Seneca

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Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Proverb

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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