Medicine Quotes - Page 28

• The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

  Hippocrates

  Healthy, Physicians, Looks

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• The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Tuberculosis, Disease

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

  August Bier

  Would Be, Easier, Professors

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• It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Healing, Doctors, Bed

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• Medicine: "Your money and your life!

  Karl Kraus

  Money

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

  Michael Specter

  Writing, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

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• Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.

  Ardel Wray

  Death, Ignorance, Fighting

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• Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails

  Sun Simiao

  Doctors, Disease, Firsts

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• One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!

  Maryrose Wood

  War, Men, Thinking

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Years

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• The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

  Jonas Salk

  Mind, Immune System, Turns

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• Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity.

  Dean Edell

  Baby, Cutting, Men

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• Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things are taught to children before they begin school. THE OCCULTISM OF THE PAST BECOMES THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE.

  Donald Michael Kraig

  Children, Reading, Writing

  Donald Michael Kraig (2010). “Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts”, p.16, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Aging, Heal

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• Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Spiritual, Husband

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• What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Victory, Cures, Strongest

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• There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Health, Opposites

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.256, Princeton University Press

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• Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Health, School

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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• Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Thinking, Soul

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• If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Running, Hurt

  Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.127, Bantam

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• Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

  Frederick Reines

  Brother, Educational, Book

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• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

  Ida Tarbell

  Data, Figures, Sentiments

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1915). “The Ways of Woman”

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• Physician, heal thyself.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Doctors, Physicians, Heal

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• Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Magic, Sound, Invisible

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