"Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces."
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"The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me."
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"Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws."
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"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
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"An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them."
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"Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men."
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"It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen"
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"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
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"Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress."
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"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within."
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"Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings."
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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
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"Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured."
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"Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none."
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"We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful."
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"Health requires healthy food."
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"Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"
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"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
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"I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it."
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"When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine."
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