Medicine Quotes - Page 29

• We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Thinking, Poison, Quacks

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• The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Poison, Use

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• In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Army, Doctors

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “A Study in Scarlet”, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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• I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  College, Thinking, Doctors

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• We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Sweet, Why Not, Moral

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• The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own strengths and weaknesses. The need concept is criticized as being too mechanical, as denying the autonomy and individuality of the human person, and as implying that the human being is a machine which "needs" fuel in the shape of food, engine dope in the shape of medicine, and spare parts provided by the surgeon.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Dope, Individuality, Needs

  "The Concept of Need for Health Services". The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Volume 44, No. 4, Part 2, p. 202, 1967.

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• Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Yield, Reason, Operations

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• We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Women, Heart

  Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

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• A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Interesting, Illness, Persons

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• When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Soul, Performing

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 7, 1889.

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• Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Advice, Textbooks

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

  B. C. Forbes

  Father, Work, Son

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• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• Passion makes the old medicine new:
  Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
  Passion is the elixir that renews:
  how can there be weariness
  when passion is present?
  Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
  seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Elixir

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

  Richard Whately

  Knowing, Wholesomeness, Eloquence

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.200

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• A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Leadership, Education, Home

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• It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Poison, Offers

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• We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?

  Catharine Beecher

  Foundation, Principles, Moral

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.9

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• The very best approach to medicine is, "Well, I see your physical body is sick, what's been bothering you? What are you worried about? What are you angry about? What are you frustrated about?" Because that is what is at the root of all of this. And then say, "Let it go, let it go, let it go." That's the message, and if they could hear you and do that, then they would all be well right away.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Roots, Bothering You

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• It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

  Steve Goodier

  Laughter, Healthy, Right Now

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• Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws--hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit--is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Spiritual, Health, Law

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• If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Powerful, Prayer

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• Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

  Patch Adams

  Life, Science, Healthy

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

  Harry Segall

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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