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- Dr.'s Quotes On Drugs

 

Quotes On Drugs by M.D.s

 

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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