Best drug & physicians Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Years Wells Christian Night Found Practice Century Drug Sick Patient Stores Medical Ignorant Dull Physicians Day And Night Eighteen Hideous Dose

Author:Mark Twain

“Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.”

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Book:The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts

Source: The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts

“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.”

Knows Men Giving Science Lying Knowledge Know How Drug Doctors Shops Relief Helpful Physicians Consolation Console

Author:Anatole France

“Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.”

Knows Men Use Science Drug Medical Treatment Physicians

Author:Francis Bacon

“A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.”

Kind Book Clear Drug Succeed Medicine Strive Preserves Proportion Fewer Physicians Alchemy

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”

Ends Young Drug Disease Physicians Practice Of Medicine

Author:William Osler

“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”

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