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Quotes about Medicine
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“Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.”
“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”
“God help the patient.”
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
“Medicines are only fit for old people.”
“To live by medicine is to live horribly.”
“Some remedies are worse than the disease.”
“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”
“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
“Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.”
“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.”
“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
“The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.”
“Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.”
“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
“It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.”
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
“I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.”
“They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.”
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
“In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.”
“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
“It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.”
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
“The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.”
“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.”
“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”
“A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”