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Prevention is better than cure. Desiderius Erasmus Medicine 1,024
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson Medicine 350
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale Medicine 279
Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own. Gerhard Kocher Medicine 271
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. William Shakespeare Medicine 233
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine. Gerhard Kocher Medicine 176
Music is the medicine of the mind. John A. Logan Medicine 170
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. William Shakespeare Medicine 162
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. William James Mayo Medicine 121
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates Medicine 114
Quackery has no friend like gullibility. Proverbs Medicine 108
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Medicine 105
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. Alan Wilson Watts Medicine 103
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. William Osler Medicine 98
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. American Proverbs Medicine 98
He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. Proverbs Medicine 97
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Medicine 92
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul. Rebecca West Medicine 91
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Medicine 91
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one I spend the night with the other Anton Chekhov Medicine 91
A disease known is half cured. Thomas Fuller Medicine 91
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Medicine 90
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature that distinguishes men from animals. William Osler Medicine 88
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Napoleon Bonaparte Medicine 85
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. Sir Samuel Garth Medicine 84
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. Karl Marx Medicine 83
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. William Osler Medicine 82
Some remedies are worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus Medicine 82
Time and time again throughout the history of medical practice what was once considered as scientific eventually becomes regarded as bad practice. David Stewart Medicine 81
Medicines are only fit for old people. Napoleon Bonaparte Medicine 79
There is no better surgeon than one with many scars. Spanish Proverb Medicine 78
Isnt it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice George Carlin Medicine 77
To live by medicine is to live horribly. Carolus Linnaeus Medicine 77
While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man. James Tyler Kent Medicine 71
Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children. One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician. William Osler Medicine 69
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann Medicine 68
There are some remedies worse than the disease. Publilius Syrus Medicine 67
The most Mighty hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them. Ecclesiastes Medicine 67
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. Alexander The Great Medicine 65
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Napoleon Bonaparte Medicine 63
Good medicine always tastes bad. Ron Hall Medicine 61
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea. Isak Dinesen Medicine 61
Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing. Thomas Sowell Medicine 61
You medical people will have more lives to answer for in the other world than even we generals. Napoleon Bonaparte Medicine 59
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. Ben Goldacre Medicine 59
Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents. Gerhard Kocher Medicine 59
Medicine is not a science it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders. Emmet Densmore Medicine 56
I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea. Oliver Wendell Holmes Medicine 54
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. Thomas Jefferson Medicine 54
Sleep is better than medicine. Source Unknown Medicine 53

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