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Quotes About Medicine

Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here. I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe, I said. Split the difference at McCoy? Thomas asked? Perfect.
~ Jim Butcher
I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine.
~ Jim Butcher
An Ursuline nun was the first pharmacist in Louisiana.
~ Unknown
Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.
~ Joan Didion
I put the word diagnosis in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a diagnosis led to a cure, or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility.
~ Joan Didion
Froehlich's syndrome
~ Unknown
A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.
~ Joanne Harris
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.
~ Jodi Picoult
I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.
~ Unknown
Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
~ Unknown
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
~ William Osler
Advice after injury is like medicine after death
~ Proverb
Non mi meraviglierebbe chela tua malattia fosse una conseguenza di questo odioso inverno che è durato un'eternità. Allora dovresti prendere le mie stesse medicine: cioè quanto più aria primaverile puoi; coricati molto presto, perché è necessario dormire, abbi cura dei cibi, mangia legumi freschi e non bere vini cattivi o altri pessimi alcolici. Infine pochissime donne e moltissima pazienza.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.
~ Virginia Foxx
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
~ Unknown
The body in Chinese medicine, then, is not an aggregate of discrete morphological substances linked to each other anatomically by means of mechanical structures and physiologically by way of interactive functional systems. Rather, it is a complex unit of functions and a site of regular transformations. While these transformations have discernible patterns, the body itself is always becoming.
~ Unknown
One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.
~ Unknown
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~ Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~ Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~ Voltaire
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
~ Voltaire
Regimen is superior to medicine.
~ Voltaire
Bags and pouches were used by all Indian tribes for many purposes. Bags were larger than pouches and usually were decorated with quill or beadwork. They were used to carry pipes, food, fire-making equipment, and miscellaneous objects. Pouches were smaller decorated containers used for carrying medicine, tobacco, sewing tools, and other personal articles.
~ Unknown
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
~ W. H. Auden