"The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine."
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"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."
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"Great griefs medicine the less."
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"I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine."
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"Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today."
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"I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984."
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"I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest."
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"There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it."
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"Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves."
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"So if you think America's politicians and citizens are willing to make the changes necessary to strengthen the U.S. dollar, then don't buy silver. But if you're like me and don't expect us, as a nation, to take our medicine, then short the dollar - and the way you short the currency is by going long on gold and silver."
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"Through love, all pain will turn to medicine."
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"Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'"
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"Medicines are only fit for old people."
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"Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards"
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"The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine."
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"We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion."
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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."
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"Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art."
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"Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious."
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"The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine."
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