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“Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.”

Ifs Health Theory Healthy Doctors Medicine Weed Skepticism Beaten Anvils

Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart

“I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.”

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.”

Men Book Age Nations Dark Simple Theory Ordinary Medicine Forgotten Medical Dark Ages Ordinary Man

Author:John Wesley

“The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.”

Wells Sometimes Theory Medicine Patient Treated Spite Fashionable Get Well

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.”

Years Wells Enough Kids Technology Objects Theory Fool Fit Mouths Years Ago Medicine Dumb Pool Genes Surviving

Author:Lenny Bruce