Quotes about Medicine

Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a-man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bill like everything.

Love is the medicine that saves from disease.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.