16 QUOTES ON PERSCRIPTION DRUGS

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16 Quotes On Drugs

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1. " The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians

superstitiously give in order to effect a cure. " Charles E. Page,

M.D.

 

2. " Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very

nature they can only work symptomatically. " Hans Kusche, M.D.

 

3. " If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it

would be bad for the fish and good for humanity " O.W. Holmes, (Prof.

of Med. Harvard University)

 

4. " Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease,

those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia

medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a word

poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease

when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are

poisons. " R.T. TraIl, M.D., in a two and one half hour lecture to

members of congress and the medical profession, delivered at the

Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.

 

5. " Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition. "

Robert Henderson, M.D.

 

6. " Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's

protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the

pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be

reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms.

Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition,

though unconscious of it at the time. " Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.

 

7. " The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the

suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning. " Henry Lindlahr, M.D.

 

8. " Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not

appreciably helped by medicine. " Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen.

Hospital)

 

9. " Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause,

and this cause no drug can reach. " Wier Mitchel, M.D.

 

10. " The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the

disease and once from the medicine. " William Osler, M.D.

 

11. " Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to

recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities.

By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the

case is further embarrassed and harder to cure. " Elmer Lee, M.D.,

Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.

 

12. " Our figures show approximately four and one half million

hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs.

Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent

chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to

adverse drug reactions. " Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of

Pharmacology, University of California)

 

13. " Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take

that which would make a well man sick. " L.F. Kebler, M.D.

 

14. " What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true

science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built

around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be

expelled when the right drug is found? " John H. Tilden, M.D.

 

15. " The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and

medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty

and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug

system will be abandoned. " Charles Armbruster, M. D.

 

16. " We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male

population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.

It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with

millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs. " Robert

Mendelsohn, M.D

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, David Elfstrom

<listbox@e...> wrote:

> At 06:26 AM 3/25/2004, you wrote:

> >16 Quotes On Drugs

> >1-30-3

>

> Excellent!

>

> Did you compile this list yourself?

>

> Are there any approximate dates to those quotations? Some must be

old, i.e.

> William Osler.

>

> David

 

 

Hi David,

This list of quotes was sent to me in an e mail from a friend of

mine who is a holistic health care practitioner. There were no dates

with the quotes. Lynn