Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over. . . no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid. . . antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.
If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.
Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. . . . At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?". . . Our souls do not spell out their troubles.
The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.
If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.
Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.
If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.
I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.