Ancient Quote by Louis Pasteur

“Progress in medicine together with improved living conditions has therefore, it is argued, totally transformed the very essence of capital.”

— Thomas Piketty

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having…

— Francis Bacon

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when…

— Herbert M. Shelton

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods,…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with…

— William Osler

Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever…

— Laura Mullen

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

— Livy

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people…

— Ivan Illich

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the…

— Petr Skrabanek

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

— Thomas Bernhard

All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly…

— Lysander Spooner