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"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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"Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat."
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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."
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"On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public."
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"But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]"
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"The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been surprised that he had not seen him at the Medical School, but he understood in an instant from the young man's blush and Andean accent that he was probably a recent arrival to the city. He said: "There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days." And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remeber, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice. "And when you do find one, observe with care," he said to the intern: "they almost always have crystals in their heart."
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"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
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"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."
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"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
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"I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances."
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"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."
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"Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something."
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"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."
Will
"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
Time
"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
Happiness
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
Travel
"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."
Time
"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."
Man
"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."
Happiness
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
Genius
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