[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.
For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an affordable price, then affluent people would find ways to buy it cheaply as well - and then the innovator would be poorly rewarded and introductions of new medicines would decline.
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
The best doctors give the least medicines
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
Chemistry. . . is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides. . . for she dispenses the recipes.
He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
Of all the medicines In the inner life, A smile is by far The best medecine.
