“The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.” YearsWellsChristianNightFoundPracticeCenturyDrugSickPatientStoresMedicalIgnorantDullPhysiciansDay And NightEighteenHideousDose Author:Mark Twain
“In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.” PeopleMenWorldKindEndsTechnologyCenturyTelevisionIndustryInternetMoonPhonesMedicalAll KindsCellsColourPrimitive20th CenturyCell PhoneOrbitMedical Technology Author:David Gerrold
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.” PeopleThinkingMenCountryBigsPastOur LivesCenturyHugeRevolutionHeroRepublicanComputerMen And WomenIncreaseDemocratMedicalComplainingImprovementConsumersDramaticGoodsDividesHousingTransportationOver The PastDoersTalkersMedical Advances Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"” Would BeVoiceTalkingCenturyDegreesDoctorsMedicalJournalGet RealReally Interesting19th CenturyPathology Author:Elizabeth Gilbert