Dr. Mercola August 01 2007 18,398 views
Good stuff! I think the same holds true for yesterday's medical quotes:
"Having good health is very different than only being not sick."
- Seneca the Younger, 50AD
"Nature is the physician of man.”
- Hippocrates
“Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.”
- James Bryce
“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“God heals and the doctor takes the fee.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.”
- Francis Quarles
“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.”
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire]
“Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.”
- Moliere (1622-1672)
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison
“[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881
“Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pots if you can cure your patient with food."
- Hippocrates, 420BC
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
- William Osler
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
- Voltaire 1778
Don Quixote,
Thanks for the extra quotes. They're good.