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Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) English Physician, poet.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon Bonaparte (17169-1821) Emperor of France.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Sir William Osier (1849-1919) Canadian physician.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer (1879-1962)
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa slightly off balance.
Charles, Prince of Wales (b.1948)
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Addison.
Medicine has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder, and of tampering ingeniously, till nature either kills or cures him.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature.
Jeffrey.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to turn the curious harp of man’s body.
Bacon.
The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
Montaigne.
The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
Franklin.
We seem ambitious God’s whole work to undo. With new diseases on ourselves we war, and with new physic, a worse engine far.
Donne.
Doctor, no medicine. We are machines made to live organized expressly for that purpose. Such is our nature. Do not counteract the living principle. Leave it at liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs.
Napoleon.
Over the door of a liberty in Thebes is the inscription, “ Medicine for the soul.”
Diodorus Siculus.
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) English Physician, poet.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon Bonaparte (17169-1821) Emperor of France.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Sir William Osier (1849-1919) Canadian physician.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer (1879-1962)
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa slightly off balance.
Charles, Prince of Wales (b.1948)
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Addison.
Medicine has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder, and of tampering ingeniously, till nature either kills or cures him.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature.
Jeffrey.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to turn the curious harp of man’s body.
Bacon.
The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
Montaigne.
The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
Franklin.
We seem ambitious God’s whole work to undo. With new diseases on ourselves we war, and with new physic, a worse engine far.
Donne.
Doctor, no medicine. We are machines made to live organized expressly for that purpose. Such is our nature. Do not counteract the living principle. Leave it at liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs.
Napoleon.
Over the door of a liberty in Thebes is the inscription, “ Medicine for the soul.”
Diodorus Siculus.
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
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