Quotes About Medicine

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.

And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.

A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

So neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well... For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

America does not have a health care system; what modern medicine has created is an illness maintenance system.

There are in America about fifty million people who, from time to time, set up chemical explosions in their internal economy in the hope that good health will follow. The worst about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

Dr. Tilden is... a medical heretic. He has broken away entirely from the tenets of the regular school of medicine and burnt the bridges behind him: he does not resort to medicine as a cure for sickness, but cures by correcting the patient's diet and other habits of living.

Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.

A surgeon should be young, a physician old.

A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

Christyan Scientists think they'se no such thing as disease, an' doctors think there ain't annythin' else.

Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle.

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

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

Acetaminophen toxicity is the second-most-common cause of acute liver failure requiring transplantation.

Turmeric Or Curcumin Which Should You Take?

God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctor's job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

It was a time when formaldehyde was routinely prescribed for the common cold, arsenic for asthma, strychnine for headaches, morphine for diarrhea—and mercury for everything from anemia to yellow fever.