Quotes about Medicine

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

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

The heart of man is the same in every age. The spiritual medicine which it requires is always the same.

Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils.--They were the school of God, in which He trains the children of grace for glory--the medicines which are needful to purify our corrupt wills--the furnace which must burn away our dross--the knife which must cut the ties that bind us to the world.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.

learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls.

Plato said that "the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately"!