Quotes About Medicine

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Lo que nosotros conocemos como enfermedad no es más que la etapa terminal de un desorden mucho más profundo, y es obvio que para asegurar el éxito completo de un tratamiento, enfrentar solamente el resultado final no será totalmente efectivo, a menos que también erradiquemos las causas primigenias.

The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease. Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely. And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.

Dr Williams' pink pills for pale people.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

A Short History of Medicine 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.

Nurses are I.V. leaguers.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.

The physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior physician. The physician who waits to treat people until after their health is lost is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until one's family is starving to begin to plant seeds in the garden.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

The proclamation of bruised feelings, the desperate plea for the correction of individual pain and suffering, the inchoate cry for the loss of a never-achieved sense of inner balance and happiness to which most humans aspire are not likely to diminish soon.4 It would be foolish to ask medicine alone to heal a sick culture, but it is just as foolish to ignore that aspect of human disease.

La medicina no empezó como un deporte intelectual pensado para ejercitar nuestro ingenio ante un diagnóstico enigmático o un misterio fisiológico, sino que lo hizo como consecuencia de ciertos sentimientos específicos de los pacientes y de los sentimientos que estos despertaban en los primeros médicos;

The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.

For as long as we have been a species, whether with medicine or technology, by gathering power, by embarking on journeys, or by telling stories, we humans have tried to defeat death. None of us ever has." They reach the top of the tower

When the voice of medicine can't give you the answers you need and you recognize that the cause of your trouble is spiritual, it's imperative that you learn how to trust in the God that is bigger than your storm. When the only way out, is through, you need to know deep within your heart and soul, that no matter what you go through, the friends of God suffer no permanent harm.

Descartes's grandiose ambitions even extended to "a system of medicine founded on infallible demonstrations." He once said that the preservation of health had always been "the principal end of my studies,