"Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake."
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"Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless."
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"She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul."
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"Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!"
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"There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it."
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"I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine."
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"I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor."
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"The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine."
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"I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it."
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"All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music."
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"The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball."
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"We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good."
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"Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease."
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"Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse."
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"Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be."
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"The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured."
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"[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies."
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"I can't get my medicine."
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"Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine."
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"The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot"
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