Quotes About Medicine

Do no harm was part of Hippocrates's writing, but from a different text. On epidemics.

Enid, his ex-wife, had also listened. But there was always an edge of desperation about it, a demand. As though he owed her. As though she was dying and he was the medicine.

whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't

metaraminol, an adrenaline-like drug used to treat low blood pressure.

legitimate nutritional researchers

Superior nutrition is the most powerful medicine; pharmacological medicine is comparably close to worthless—especially because a drug prescription gives people tacit permission to continue the same disease-causing diet that caused their problems in the first place.

The tendency to throw drugs at every medical condition is the problem with medicine today.

inhibitors. ANTI

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If travelling through a malarial region take an adequate supply of anti-malaria tablets. You must start taking these two weeks before your journey, so that resistance is in the system before you arrive in the risk area, and should keep taking them for a month after your return.

A cheerful heart is good medicine.

They say laughter is the best medicine. But one thing's for sure: it doesn't heal a broken heart.

I don't want to put my life in the hands of any doctor who believes in reincarnation. Give me a good old-fashioned American doc who'll make sure you live to pay that bill.

Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

I reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, till end of course.

The laws of life and death, as she had learned them, were incomplete. There was more to life, more to death, than medical science had known.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Los casos de Sherlock Holmes. Tomar diez páginas, dos veces al día, hasta finalizar el tratamiento».

Cogí la receta. Con letra enérgica, había escrito: «Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Los casos de Sherlock Holmes. Tomar diez páginas, dos veces al día, hasta finalizar el tratamiento».

Rita knew better than most that doctors can be reluctant to admit it when they do not have the answer to a question. If no good answer presents itself, some will sooner give a bad answer than no answer at all. She did not tell Mrs. Vaughan this.

I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.