Quotes About Medicine

Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car

People say laughter is the best medicine. Your face must be curing the world.

When ever I get a headache I take two tablet of aspirin and keep away from children just like the bottle says.

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

According to the Persian seer Avicenna, whose 'Canon of Medicine' Marjan often consulted, fenugreek is the first stop to curing winter chills. Combined with the hearty kidney beans and succulent meat of the herb stew, it made for an excellent 'garm', or hot, meal.

Charles Goodyear had patented the first rubber condom in 1844, and by the 1870s, there was such widespread use of intrauterine devices and diaphragms that the number of women dying in childbirth had dropped by 30 percent in twenty-five years.

the doctor gestures at the X-ray where the lung crumples like a tossed poem.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him?

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

In his ministry to the sick Luther recommended physicians, barbers, and apothecaries. Resort to medicine is desirable, he said, and it is well that physicians and nurses do what they can. However, Luther went beyond most of these physicians in pointing to the mental and emotional origin of some physical ailments. "Our physical health depends in large measure on the thoughts of our minds. This is in accord with the saying, 'Good cheer is half the battle.'"{18}

He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 147:1 Prayer Book , 1662

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Panacea, Greek for "cure all

in most circumstances, ancient weapons were much better at wounding than killing outright; death followed later, by infection).

The New England Jornal of Medicine reports that nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.