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Famous
Medicine
and Healing
Quotes
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"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, Inventor
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"The
art of medicine consists of amusing the patient
while Nature cures the disease." - Voltaire
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"The
art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician.
Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open
mind." - Paracelsus
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"It
is more important to know what sort of person has a disease
than to know what
sort of disease a person has." - Hippocrates
(460-377 B.C.) |
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"Let
thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."
- Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) |
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"Oh,
the powers of nature! She knows what we need,
and the doctors know nothing." - Benvenuto Cellini |
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"When
health is absent wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become
manifest,
strength cannot be exerted,
wealth is useless
and reason is powerless." - Herophilies, 300 B.C. |
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"The
competent physician, before he attempts to give medicine to
the patient,
makes himself acquainted
not only with the disease,
but also
with the habits and constitution of the sick man." -
Cicero |
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"Man
is ill because he is never still." - Paracelsus |
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"No
illness which can be treated by the diet should be treated
by any other means." - Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) |
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"Health
is the proper relationship between microcosm, which is man,
and the macrocosm,
which is the universe. Disease is a disruption
of this relationship."
- Dr. Yeshe Donden, physician to the Dalai Lama |
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"The
greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings
can alter their lives
by altering the attitudes of their minds."
- Albert Schweitzer |
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"The
next major advance in the health of the American people will
be determined
by what the individual is willing
to do for
himself."
- John Knowles, Former President of the Rockefeller Foundation
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"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 pharmacopeia."
- Napoleon Bonaparte |
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"He's
the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
- Benjamin Franklin |
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