Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
Voltaire
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.
Jean-Martin Charcot
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficiant and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Elbert Hubbard
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Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.
H.G. Bohn
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The King who cannot rule his diet,
will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet.
Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno"
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
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In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Author Unknown
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
Chinese Proverb
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert Hubbard
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Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I
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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Josh Billings
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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin H. Fischer
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
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Life is not living, but living in health.
Martial, Roman poet
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Latin Proverb
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Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities.
John R. Lee, M.D.
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The very first requirement of a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightengale.
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...the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.
Gary Null, et al., Death by Medicine
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
Adelle Davis
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.
Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard
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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh
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