Books Quote by Alexander Pope

From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire…

— John Gorrie

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical…

— John William Draper

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs…

— Paracelsus

Nature can do more than physicians

— Oliver Cromwell

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.”

— William Owens

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

— Paracelsus

But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made…

— Hippocrates

Nature itself is the best physician.

— Hippocrates

“If man is but a biological organism and biology itself may be reduced to a set of physical and chemical laws, it should be…

— Salvador de Madariaga

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases…

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire