Quotes About Medicine

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.

What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

truth is strong medicine. It should be prescribed with great care

Put yourself in the shoes of an eighteenth-century country doctor. You're treating a very ill patient. You've tried everything, yet nothing seems to work. So, in desperation, you put together a mixture of herbs and potions. Your patient takes the mixture and recovers. Eureka! Your medicine works, you've found a miracle cure. What you don't see, in your enthusiasm, is that the patient was getting better anyway.

Está na hora da homeopatia!

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

He had a stillness like white linen folded inside him. But when he heard in the man's tone the desperate beseeching for life, Hadja Bannerje felt the grief rumple him like an illness of the stomach and acknowledged in himself the awfulness of reaching this place at the end of medicine. This, he thought, is beyond the last page of all the books I have studied. This is a place further than prescription.

Umoristica (medica): "Gli specialisti sono mistici e sapienti come i Magi, ma funzionano al contrario: sei tu che devi andare da loro

know lots of doctors who think everything would be fine if it weren't for the patients.

When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is — if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess.

Can we treat animal behavior with the same medicines, therapies, and approaches we use on humans? To me, the answer is an obvious yes. You could effectively teach medical students brain anatomy using the brains of dogs. Transferring what you learned about dog brains to knowledge of human brain anatomy would be a breeze.

Can we treat animal behavior with the same medicines, therapies, and approaches we use on humans? To me, the answer is an obvious yes. You

How long will it be before obstetricians transfer a dab of vaginal mucus into the mouth of the newborn to be on the safe side?

Research employing fractal rules has revealed a three-quarter power law even in the circulatory system.

And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.

Medicine is like the slow raising of masonry," Rob said. "We are fortunate, in a lifetime, to be able to lay a single brick. If we can explain the disease, someone yet unborn may devise a cure.

Why is it, Master," he asked bitterly, "that despite all a physician is able to do, he is as a leaf before the wind, and the real power lies only with Allah?

As substâncias eram imprevisíveis e difíceis de controlar, mas por vezes os cirurgiões conseguiam operar sem os tremores convulsivos e os gemidos e gritos de dor. As receitas pareciam-lhe mais magia do que medicina

The study of medicine was, in its own way, something to love in place of a missing family.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.