Medicine Quotes

Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say “Manayeva manu ā ā kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),” the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.

Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

Love is the medicine that saves from disease.

In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

Sound will be the medicine of the future.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.