Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.
I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.
Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.
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.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
Chemistry. . . is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides. . . for she dispenses the recipes.
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.
Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
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.
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
The best doctors give the least medicines
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.