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Quotes About Medicine

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
~ William J. Clinton
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.
~ François Magendie
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
~ Tamar Braxton
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
~ George Bernard Shaw
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.
~ Steven Weinberg
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
~ John Aubrey
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
~ Hippocrates
We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.
~ Barack Obama
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
~ William Osler
All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.
~ Paracelsus
Every medicine is vain.
~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...
~ Paul Gerson Unna
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
....All of the medicine hurts.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
There is a saying in the medical profession 'Inside everytablet is a little bit of poison'. Avoid medications if you can.
~ Steven Magee
Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It's time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.
~ Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.
~ Wolf Pascoe, Breathing for Two
wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment, its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.
~ Mohlalefi j motsima
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
~ Eric Kandel
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Of all the medicines In the inner life, A smile is by far The best medecine.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
~ Pam Brown
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
~ Pol Pot
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~ Samuel Wilson