Antibiotics Quote by Thomas Szasz

“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.”

Thomas Szasz

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