The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Thomas Sydenham

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Josh Billings

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Shana Alexander

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.
Robert M. Fresco

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
Arthur Middleton

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
Kate Millett

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
George S. Kaufman

The medicine increases the disease.
Virgil

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Jon Lee Anderson

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
Jay Leno

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
Robert Jay Lifton

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
Paul Farmer

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
Herbie Mann