Guest guest Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 I thought you might like these... ********************** 16 Quotes on Drugs1. "The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicianssuperstitiously give in order to effect a cure." Charles E. Page, M.D.2. "Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very naturethey can only work symptomatically." Hans Kusche, M.D.3. "If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it wouldbe 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 medicais simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a word poisons.All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when broughtin 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 ofcongress and the medical profession, delivered at the SmithsonianInstitute 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'sprotest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathwayof transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckonedwith later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain maydisappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, thoughunconscious of it at the time." Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.7. "The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by thesuppression of acute disease by drug poisoning." Henry Lindlahr, M.D.8. "Every educated physician knows that most diseases are notappreciably helped by medicine." Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen.Hospital)9. "Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, andthis cause no drug can reach." Wier Mitchel, M.D.10. "The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from thedisease and once from the medicine." William Osler, M.D.11. "Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense torecommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. Bytaking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case isfurther 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 hospitaladmissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, theaverage hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, dependinghow 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 takethat which would make a well man sick." L.F. Kebler, M.D.14. "What hope is there for medical science to ever become a truescience when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built aroundthe idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelledwhen 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 injuriouseffects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will beabandoned." Charles Armbruster, M. D.16. "We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the malepopulation and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. Itmay surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions ofwomen dependent on legal prescription drugs."Robert Mendelsohn, M.D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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