Quotes About Medicine

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

All disease begins in the gut.

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

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

All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.

And in this way truly you may see that it is not a god that injures the body, but disease.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

There is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife

I will abandon my agonized soul to vice if instantly you don't send a medimnos of barley. From the flour I'll make a brew to drink as medicine against my sorrows.

En los últimos 100 años la medicina ha hecho grandes avances. Irónicamente el número de personas que enferman sigue en aumento. Si la medicina ha progresado de verdad, ¿por qué no hay menos enfermos?

Lo que necesitamos en el futuro es medicina preventiva. Y para instituir una medicina preventiva correcta es indispensable un conocimiento adecuado sobre las dietas.

LA ENZIMA PRODIGIOSA – LA CLAVE PARA EL CÓDIGO DE LA VIDA Tu cuerpo tiene la gran capacidad milagrosa de curarse a sí mismo. De hecho, tu cuerpo es el único sistema curativo que puede restablecer tu equilibrio cuando te ataca una enfermedad. La medicina puede ayudar a tu cuerpo en caso de emergencia y la cirugía puede ser necesaria en determinadas circunstancias, pero sólo tu cuerpo tiene la capacidad de curarse.

Los medicamentos no pueden fundamentalmente curar enfermedades. El único camino esencial para curar cualquier enfermedad estriba en nuestro estilo de vida diario.

En la medicina moderna se piensa que a menos que el cáncer sea removido quirúrgicamente, el órgano enfermo no se curará solo. Pero ésa no ha sido mi experiencia. El sistema inmunológico y la fuerza de curación natural de los seres humanos parecen ser más poderosos de lo que se cree comúnmente.

He knew about cures and poultices and the medicinal value of kisses.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.