medicine

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated the spark and brilliance are also gone.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

The American Medical Association operating from a platform of negative vigilance presents no solutions but busily fights each change and then loudly supports it against the next proposal.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

Invalids live longest.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

Physician heal thyself.

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.

I came I saw I concurred.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.