Quotes About Medicine

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. —Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.

wrote a prescription for soluble Thorazine and disposable syringes, and gave it to Chris. "Have this filled right away." Chris handed it to Sharon. "Shar, take care of that for me, would you? Just call and they'll send it. I'd like to go with the doctor while he makes those tests." Chris turned and looked up at the doctor wistfully. "Do you mind?" Klein noted the tightness

Perversely, the greatest triumph in medical history—the germ theory of disease—destroyed the ideal of heroic medicine, replacing it with a kind of therapeutic fatalism.* As physicians were taught the bacterial causes of diseases, they also learned that there was little if nothing to do once a patient acquired one.

Until the first antibiotics, medicine remained the oldest art. It had yet to become, in Thomas's words, the "youngest science.

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

Not poppy, nor mandragora,Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleepWhich thou ow'dst yesterday.

Some griefs are med'cinable.

By 1300, the size of the tea-drinking elite had expanded somewhat, but these essential characteristics remained the same. Indeed, tea retained its role in gift giving and as a medicine into the present.

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

To practice the one spirit with the Lord is the medicine to heal the disease of opinion.

Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

Pasemos ahora al «general» que tenemos en el cuerpo, el gan, o sea el hígado. Si nos causa gracia esta imaginería china de órganos internos, y nos parece ridícula y «poco científica», no olvidemos que esta analogía en realidad es más profunda que el concepto occidental del corazón como una bomba, los pulmones como sacos de aire, o la vesícula biliar como un saco de almacenamiento.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their