Medicine Quotes - Page 20

• Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body.

  Christiane Northrup

  Exercise, Cells, Looks

  Dr. Christiane Northrup (2015). “Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Block, Thinking

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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• Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Communication, Computer, Wonder

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'

  Jim Marrs

  Father, Cancer, Son

  "Rule By Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commision, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids". Book by Jim Marrs, April 26, 2000.

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Drug Use

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• Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

  Carl Jung

  Doctors, Disease, Patient

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• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  O. Henry

  Funeral, Patient, Carriages

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Real, Alive

  "Tales and Novels". Book by Maria Edgeworth, vol. 14, p. 245, 1843.

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• The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

  Evan Esar

  Laughter, Needs, Cost

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• Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

  Horace Mann

  Criticism, Mercury, Harm

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Long, Giving

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "How I Grew". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1987.

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• In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

  Henci Goer

  Skins, Crowns, Tissues

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

  Hippocrates

  Art, Fruit, Facts

  "Precepts". Book by Hippocrates, Ch. 2, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923),

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• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  Wangari Maathai

  Party, People, House

  "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.

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• Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

  Alain de Botton

  Heart, Doctors, Ideas

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

  Sitting Bull

  Believe, Men, White Man

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Marijuana is a proven medicine.

  Tommy Chong

  Marijuana, Proven

  "Cheech & Chong Light Up 'The Factor'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Needs, Needed

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Yoga, Kids

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

  Ann Romney

  Taken, Littles, Merit

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• It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered alternative at the outset. If it is found to be reasonably safe and effective, it will be accepted.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Giving, Community

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• There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

  Ben Goldacre

  Ideas, Blind Spots, People

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• At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.

  John Ratey

  Stress, Wine, Exercise

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• Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Evil, World

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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