MEDICINE

Related Subjects: Disease, Doctors, Health, Hospital, Sickness

1. Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance.—ADDISON, The Spectator
   

2. The remedy is worse than the disease.—BACON, Of Seditions
   

3. Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.—LORD BRYCE
   

4. Desperate cures must be to desperate ills applied.—DRYDEN, The Hind & the Panther
   

5. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.—HIPPOCRATES, Precepts
   

6. Life is short and the art long.—HIPPOCRATES, Aphorisms
   

7. I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes.—O. W. HOLMES
   

8. To live by medicine is to live horribly.—LINNAEUS, Diaeta Naturalis
   

9. Do I believe in medicine alone? No, never. In science alone? No, never. It seems to me childish and ridiculous to suppose one can be cured like a cow if one is not a cow.—KATHERINE MANSFIELD, Journals
   

10. Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.—MOLIERE, Le Malade Imaginaire

11. Medical science today is infantile, only half explored, and of all the sicknesses the curable are few and to find more cures for others we must depend on the progress of pathology and the responsibility on us pathologists is great and we ought not to waste a single day.—NOGUCHI, Eckstein: Noguchi
    

12. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

13. Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease, and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

14. Take a hair of the same dog that bit you.—Proverb
    

15. I was well, would be better, took physic, and died.—Proverb
    

16. If physic do not work, prepare for the kirk.—Proverb
    

17. Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.—Proverb
    

18. Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

19. By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death
    Will seize the doctor too.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline