Quotes About Medicine

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

the use of electrodes at skull sutures by a newly developed means which enabled contact to be made directly with the gray cells, without even the necessity of shaving a patch of skull.

In Russia, there was one cure for every illness—vodka.

La esencia de un buen médico consiste en la capacidad de compasión y el sentido de la ética, sin los cuales el arte sagrado de la sanación degenera en simple charlatanería.

We distrust doctors because it's obvious that good health does not promote good business, and we go to them only when everything else has failed, after we've tried all the remedies recommended by our friends and acquaintances.

Mezclábamos la sangre fresca con leche y un poco de orina y se la dábamos a beber a los enfermos; así se repusieron y al cabo de dos semanas estaban en condiciones de emprender el camino.

La homeopatía equivale a disolver una aspirina en el océano Pacífico y recetarle quince gotas al paciente.

Si un indio del Amazonas puede detener un chorro de sangre con saliva, cuánto más podrá hacer la ciencia por ti, hija.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death, but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

No one has developed active tuberculosis.

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.