A merry heart does good like medicine.
- Proverbs 17:22
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them
sad, theology makes them sinful.
- Martin Luther
(1483-1546)
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your
complaint. However, lucky for you, I happen to be
a quack.
- Richter cartoon caption
I have endeavored to show that there is no real
service of humanity in the profession [of
medicine] and that it is injurious to mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
- Hippocrates
How unfair! Only one health, and so many diseases.
--Victor Schlichter, attributed by his son
Dr. Andres J. Schlichter, Childrenīs Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The miserable have no other medicine but only
hope.
- William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced
to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and
wealth.
- Robert Orben
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which
they know little, to cure diseases of which they
know less, in human beings of whom they know
nothing.
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
God heals and the Doctor takes the fee.
- Benjamin Franklin
Medical scientists are nice people, but you should
not let them treat you.
- August Bier (1861-1949)
German surgeon
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of
their diseases.
- Moliere
(1622-1672)
Medicine, the only profession that labors
incessantly to destroy the reason for its own
existance.
- James Bryce
Formerly, when religion was strong and science
weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when
science is strong and religion weak, men mistake
medicine for magic.
- Thomas Szasz, M.D.