Guest guest Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 For those who missed them, I like to throw these out for your entertainment and edification from time to time. You might find one or several that come in handy when people question your advocacy or natural health as being outside the mainstream of thinking. My Favorite Medical Quotations " One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores. " Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 1,018) " The simplicity of truth is annoying to man. " Author: Goethe " But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. " Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Physicians " Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. " Author: Chinese Proverb Source: None " He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. " Author: Proverb Source: None " Nature is the physician of man. " Author:Hippocrates, " the father of medicine " Source: The Nature of Man " Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. " Author: James Bryce Source: None " I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. " Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Source: None " God heals and the doctor takes the fee. " Author: Benjamin Franklin Source: None " The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. " Author: Robert Burton Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (I, 2, 3, 15) " Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. " Author: John Dryden Source: Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton (l. 92) " Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. " Author: John Gay Source: The Sick Man and the Angel " Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. " Author: Dag Hammarskjold Source: News Summaries, Mar. 18.1956 " You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill, Of which you need not read one letter, The worse the scrawl, the dose the better. For if you knew but what you take, Though you recover, he must break. " Author: Matthew Prior Source: Alma (canto III, l. 97) " But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. " Author: Matthew Prior Source: The Remedy Worse than the Disease " Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. " Author: Francis Quarles Source: Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man " Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. " --Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire] " Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases. " --Moliere (1622-1672) " The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. " - Thomas Edison " Having good health is very different than only being not sick. " Seneca the Younger, 50AD " In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. " Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881 " Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature. " Elbert Hubbard " Leave your drugs in the chemist's pots if you can cure your patient with food. " Hippocrates, 420BC " One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. " William Osler " A merry heart does good like medicine. " - Proverbs 17:22 " Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, theology makes them sinful. " - Martin Luther (1483-1546) " Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, lucky for you, I happen to be a quack. " - Richter cartoon caption " 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. " - Mahatma Gandhi " The life so short, the craft so long to learn. " - Hippocrates " How unfair! Only one health, and so many diseases. " --Victor Schlichter, attributed by his son Dr. Andres J. Schlichter, Children´s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina " The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. " - William Shakespeare Measure for Measure " Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth. " - Robert Orben " Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. " - Thomas Szasz, M.D. " The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. " - Voltaire (1694 - 1778) " [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. " - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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