#medicine

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. ↗

— William Osler

#educate #first #masses #medicine #physician

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#science

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality #philosophy #science

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#humor #lover-enshrined #medicine #humor

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies. ↗

— Molière

#illness #medicine #remedies #humor

In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #medicine #money #humor

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again. ↗

— Louise Edrich

#death

[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

#ancient-egypt #ancient-medicine #biology #hieroglyphic #medical-history

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#compassion-wisdom #inspirational #medicine #change