Quotes on Medicine

Temporis ars medicina fere est._x000D_ _x000D_ Time is generally the best medicine.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.