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Medical Quotations – Page 2

Easier to Write Upon a Disease

 

It is much easier to write
upon a disease
than upon a remedy.

The former is in the hands of Nature.
Ad a faithful observer with
an eye of tolerable judgement
cannot fail to delineate a likeness.

He latter will ever be subject
to the whim,
the inaccuracies and
the blunder
of mankind
 

**William Withering 1741-1799**
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Moses and God Dialogue

 

“Whence come disease and healing?” asked the prophet Moses of God. “From me,” was the reply. “What purpose do doctors serve?” “They earn their living and cultivate hope in the heart of the patient until I either take away his life or give him back his health.”
 

**Albert Denti di Pirajno**
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New Drugs

 

If you are too fond of new remedies first you will not cure your patients, secondly, you will have no patients to cure
 

**Astley Paston Cooper**
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History of Medicine

 

2000 B.C. – Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. – That root is heathen.  Here, say this  prayer.

1850 A.D. – That prayer is superstition.  Here, drink this potion.

1940 A.D. – That potion is snake oil.  Here, swallow  this pill.

1985 A.D. – That pill is ineffective.  Here, take this antibiotic.

2000 A.D. – That antibiotic doesn’t work anymore.Here, eat this
root.
 

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The greatest mistake

 

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
 

**Plato**
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Common Sense

 

Common-sense nerve fibers are seldom medullated before forty–they are never seen even with a microscope before twenty

 

-Sir William Osler

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Placebos

 

I’m addicted to placebos. I’d give them up, but it wouldn’t make any difference.
 

**Steven Wright**
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Damn site happier

 

I remembered an Irish woman who once said to me, “You know, if only you doctors could find a cure for these wretched antibiotics, you would be doing us all a good turn, and anyway all of my family in Ireland died wither of T. B. or D.T.’s and they were a damned sight happier than us lot being kept alive with your lousy drugs.” (1975)
 

**John Lister**
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Fact and Theory

 

One of the greatest tragedies in science is the slaying of a great theory by an ugly fact
(I find this is very often true of the clever mechanisms discovered by the pharmaceutical industry, only to be studied and be found that they don’t, in fact, work. Prof Jameson’s comment)
 

**Unknown**
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The Best Physician

 

He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines
 

**Benjamin Franklin**
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