Quotes About Medicine

Psychiatrists use tortures you have never even heard of! They drug their patients and send huge jolts of electricity through their brains to destroy nerve responses! And that isn't all! At a whim, they take a steel probe, push it under the eyelids and scramble the prefrontal lobes! They have no intention of curing anyone. They are simply making it impossible for the victim to get well. Ever! AND THEY KNOW IT!

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh?" I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.

Medical science had little to offer in the way of prevention or cure, apart from the process of disinfection, notification and isolation as recommended by Dr Niven. There was little consensus on treatment apart from the traditional recourse to bed rest, opiates and folk remedies, while to make matters worse, significant individuals refused to take the threat of Spanish flu seriously.

The Anatomy of Melancholy was regarded by Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford (1905–19), as the greatest medical treatise every written by a layman.

But no book of ours would ever just tell you a thing. The Quest would spoil, just as if you added the wrong chemical to a medicine. It would turn poisonous and rancid. A Quest is not followed, it is engineered. Now, in you go.

Part of the reason I got so thin is because my pancreas simply couldn't digest my food and so I couldn't absorb anything. It took three years to get this wonder medicine prescribed for me,

After a little time, we began to learn some of what they had known: that a compound of mullein and rue, sweet cicely and mustard oil makes an excellent syrup for quieting a cough; that boiled willow bark eases aches and fevers; that betony, bruised for a green plaster, speeds mending of wounds and scrapes.

Defensive medicine: A doctor orders tests or treatments that are not clinically indicated and might even harm the patient primarily because of fear of litigation.

Physicians don't do the best for their patients because they: practice defensive medicine (Self-defense), do not understand health statistics (Innumeracy), or pursue profit instead of virtue (Conflicts of interest).

In Western countries, for instance, it is legal for physicians to receive "bribes" in the form of cash by pharmaceutical companies for every new patient they put on their drugs.

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

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

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job.

Suddenly I began to wonder how to please so many people. do I take the magnesium citrate? What about the coffee enema? Do I do both? Do I do the abdominal message or the colonic? Do I tell the doctors about each other? East meets West in Gilda's body: Western medicine down my throat, Eastern medicine up my butt.

What is the line between the living female body and the dysfunctional portrait that has been drawn of it in literature and psychology and medicine?

Exterior pathogenic factors do not usually affect the Heart directly, but the Pericardium instead

Secondo le accuse, le "streghe" erano donne che avevano rapporti con il diavolo, si dedicavano a riti satanici e si abbandonavano a folli orge. In realtà si trattava di donne esperte in medicina naturale, per lo più contadine che conoscevano le proprietà curative delle erbe, usate ancora oggi. Ma queste donne, accrescendo le loro conoscenze e capacità di aiutare la gente, che le apprezzava, si affrancavano dalla dipendenza da Dio e dalla Chiesa.

Unceasing calling upon the name of God cures one not only of passions, but also of actions; and as a medicine affects a sick man without his comprehension, similarly the invocation of the name of God destroys passions in a manner beyond our comprehension." —St. Barsanuphius the Great "The more rain falls on the earth, the softer it makes it; similarly, Christ's holy name gladdens the earth of our heart the more we call upon it.

It seems after so many years of chasing my childhood sweetheart I have found her hiding in the eyes of that girl behind the bike shed. I have expected for years that medicine should leak into my poetry but never dreamed that poetry might leak into my medicine in such a way. On my best days there is no separation at all between both disciplines. I feel as though I have discovered a late love and, like all of those who have, it is all the more sweet for taking so long to wander by.

the majority of all tranquilizer prescriptions are written for women.

What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist.