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He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
-Proverb
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Quackery has no friend like gullibility.
-Proverb
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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
-Proverb
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
-Alexander The Great
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Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them.
-Alois Alzheimer
Alzheimer
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
-Jello Biafra
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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5
-Bible
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
-Josh Billings
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
-Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance.
-James Bryce
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What can't be cured must be endured.
-Robert Burton
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
-Samuel Butler
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.
-Prince Of Wales Charles
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
-Anton Chekhov
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
-Anton Chekhov
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.
-Norman Cousins
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Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation.
-Maurice Delort
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Books about Medicine
