Quotes about Medicine

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

The most important medicine is tender love and care.

I find it fascinating that God healed Hezekiah through medical treatment. Obviously God did not build a wall between faith and using medicine.

Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but it can also become a terrible drug. The way it is used in our world is probably one of the great evils of our day. It is a self-inflicted impediment that springs from "a man taking a drink, a drink taking a drink, and drink taking the man." Distilled liquors as we have them today were unknown in Bible times.

But Thou, Lord, abidest for ever, yet not for ever art Thou angry with us; because Thou pitiest our dust and ashes, and it was pleasing in Thy sight to reform my deformities; and by inward goads didst Thou rouse me, that I should be ill at ease, until Thou wert manifested to my inward sight. Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.