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Health Quotes by Rene Dubos
- To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task…
- The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
- It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend…
- Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual…
- One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
- But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner…
- But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive…
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