Quotes about Medicine

3 OF 5 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN MEDICINE DURING THE 1990'S WON THEIR AWARDS BASED ON THE DISCOVERY THAT DNA'S PRIMARY FUNCTION IS NOT AS A TEMPLATE FOR RNA AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, BUT AS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER OF 'BIOSPIRITUAL' ENERGY.  ONLY 0.1-2 PERCENT OF DNA FUNCTIONS AS GENETIC MATERIAL.  THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE HELICAL STRAND NOT INVOLVED IN CODING FOR PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IS BELIEVED TO FUNCTION ELECTROMAGNETICALLY.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food

Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest desires, needs, and longings are inside. We only need to know how to retrieve them.

The most powerful vehicle for retrieving our longed for answers is applied intelligence, which is the combination of information and experience. Applied intelligence brings true wisdom because it includes experience, usually on a deep level.

When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

Anything that may extend the existence of a human is humane, no matter the side effects.

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious:  the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."

STOP ... using the term "healthcare."
START ... using the term "health." Better HEALTH is the goal—and if we did "it" (focus on "health"), then "healthcare" would be far, far, far less necessary. (Understatement.)

Primum non nocere - First, do no harm.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

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

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing.

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription . . . And with no limit on dosage.

Undoubtedly you have all swallowed the Mary Poppins Myth as peddled in the film, Mary Poppins, but We wish to give YOU the truth. You will all have heard of Adolf Hitler. You may also know that one of the reasons that he came to power was because the German people thought he would protect them from Communism. But there was another, more sinister reason. Yes, the German feared one person more than any other. That one person was: MARY POPPINS. Yes, you may laugh and wonder why this never appeared in your school textbooks, but that is because your Government wants to protect you from the true terror of her brief, but bloody regime. Mary Poppins (MP) swept to power in the 1929 German general election. This was due mostly to her brilliant propaganda. Slogans such as "Freedom, Bread, Land, Feed The Birds" appealed to the desperate population. Once in power, she was brutal. She was the real "Bloody Mary". Together with her elite army of "chimney sweeps" (This was the name given to them prior to her victory to avoid detection), she terrorized millions, poisoning millions with what she called her "medicine". MP was not the only German dictator to harbor dreams of world domination. Her plan to infiltrate London with spies failed due to their appalling fake cockney accents. The true depths of her wickedness still remain hidden, even to us; but we will give you fresh facts as soon as they come to light.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.

I have fallen in love with American names The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin titles of mining claims, The plumed war bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

The parent's job year in and year out, here a little and there a little, is to build up a disposition of good sportsmanship, of taking one's medicine, of facing the music, of being reviled and reviling not. This sense of not always being right, of recognition that perhaps we've made a mistake, seems left out of some grown-up children.

HOW TO STAY PROSPEROUS & FREE IN THE 21st CENTURY Americans have always understood that that this nation is unique among nations in the long march of human history, and as we speed into the next century, we seem to be at a crossroads. We are worried that with so many things out of whack; the traditions and institutions that made America great are under attack, standards continue to be lowered, so many minds seem clouded by the fog of liberalism. So let's stay positive; the personal freedoms we still enjoy; the widespread prosperity and bounty unimaginable in any other time and place; the innovations and progress in medicine, technology, communication, science, business, and more; the standard of living never before attained by so many among a nation's citizens...we wonder, will it last? The questions remain. What will ensure that America continues? Can our culture be reclaimed? How can we stay free in the next century? While people of other countries have been restricted m to pursue prosperity, bounded only by the limits of his or her imagination. Besides, only a conservative would ask how we can STAY prosperous and free in the 21st century. A liberal would whine that only a few are prosperous--the evil rich who have somehow gotten rich off the backs of the poor. Liberals don't notice, or understand freedom. They see victims; the oppressed, the downtrodden, and the have-nots. America has had the original ideas of self-government and self-reliance; for which we must thank our Founding Fathers.

Life after Fifty Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work. The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals. You feel like the night before and you haven't been anywhere. You get winded playing chess. Your children begin to look middle aged. You begin to outlive enthusiasm. Your mind makes contracts your body can't meet. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. You look forward to a dull evening. Your favorite part of the newspaper is 25 Years Ago Today. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going. Your knees buckle and your belt won't. You reget all those mistakes resisting temptation. Dialing long distance wears you out. Your back goes out more than you do. A fortune teller offers to read your face. You burn the midnight oil after 9:00 pm. You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there. You get your exercise acting as a pallbearer for your friends who exercise. You have too much room in the house & not enough room in the medicine cabinet. The best part of my day is over when the alarm goes off.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace. . . . We study history, philosophy, religions, languages, literature, art, architecture, political science . . . anthropology, biology, medicine, psychology, sanitation . . . chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics. But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.