Quotes About Medicine

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

The physician is only nature's assistant.

Nature itself is the best physician.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

Nature can do more than physicians.

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.