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Medicine

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. – Proverb

Quackery has no friend like gullibility. – Proverb

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. – Proverb

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. – Alexander The Great

Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them. – Alois Alzheimer

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. – Jello Biafra

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5 – Bible

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it aint the gout. – Josh Billings

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. – Napoleon Bonaparte

A good nights sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. – Ray Bradbury

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

What cant be cured must be endured. – Robert Burton

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. – Samuel Butler

Well, now theres a remedy for everything except death. – Miguel de Cervantes

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa –slightly off balance. – Prince Of Wales Charles

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cant be cured. – Anton Chekhov

Todays medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. Thats been tried too often. Todays medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation. – Maurice Delort