Medicine Quotes

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Plato

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

Jello Biafra

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5

Bible

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John L. Mcclenahan

Sleep is better than medicine.

Source Unknown

Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country.

Charles Lyman Loffler

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Leo Tolstoy

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

Benjamin Franklin

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Rebecca West

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Samuel Butler

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Ambrose Bierce

Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.

Thomas Sowell

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

Voltaire

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.

Steve Maraboli

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Benjamin Franklin

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman