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.
The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false...
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Neel Burton
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
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Paul Farmer
Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under...
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Hans Zinsser
One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
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Elizabeth Bradley
More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....
