Medicine Quotes

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

Doctors is all swabs.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world.

Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.

Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

The physician heals Nature makes well.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

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.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

Medicine’s a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

It is important that we learn to smile, Life will anyway teach us to cry!

The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.