Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible biological effects. To study this, and to find means of protection, is one of the tasks of space medicine.
It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God, then you may take the yogi medicine.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the cause.
So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.
Earlier this week. . . scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.
If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.
I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
