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Medical Quotes by Alexis Carrel
- More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to…
- ...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
- Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions…
- ...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
- The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...
- Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful,…
More Medical Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
- The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
- Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. — Erma Bombeck