There is no medicine like hope..

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses..

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatmen….

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment..

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way..

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a fav….

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know ….

Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision….

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind..

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it….

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind..

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ….

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine..

Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles..

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting….

Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for t….

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses th….

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage..

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures..

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it be….