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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. -- Plutarch
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease. -- Andrew Weil
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. -- William J. Mayo
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it. -- Teri Garr
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. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. -- Daniel Kahikina Akaka
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. -- Paul Dudley White
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva. -- Emil Theodor Kocher
Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers. -- Clayton Christensen
Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation. -- Abraham Verghese
The medicine increases the disease. -- Virgil
Love is the medicine that saves from disease. -- Benny Hinn
When fear is the disease, faith and confidences are the medicine. -- Debasish Mridha
When stress is the disease, then forgiveness and laughter are the medicine. -- Debasish Mridha
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? -- C. S. Lewis
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. -- Voltaire
Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine. -- Narayanananda Swami.
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness -- Robin G. Collingwood
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth. -- Robert Orben
Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. -- William Osler
Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live. -- B. J. Palmer
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. -- Marcia Angell
I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything! -- Will Ferrell
Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation. -- John E. Sarno
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay. -- Ovid
Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person. -- Abdul Kalam
Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse. -- Sri Chinmoy
Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails -- Sun Simiao
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. -- Mehmet Oz
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. -- William J. Mayo
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles. -- Aristotle
Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live. -- B. J. Palmer
Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct. -- Takeda Nobushige
...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience. -- Ernst T. Krebs
Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine. -- Donald A. Norman
The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine. -- Michael Sandel
Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure. -- John Dryden
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

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