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Medicine Quotes


"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."



"The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians."


"If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives."



"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis."



"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."



"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it."



"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."



"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."



"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."



"Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases."


"Doctors sometimes don't know what they do!"



"Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick."


"On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public."



"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."



"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."



"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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