Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
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The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.
For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an affordable price, then affluent people would find ways to buy it cheaply as well - and then the innovator would be poorly rewarded and introductions of new medicines would decline.
The best doctors give the least medicines
The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control.
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.