Quotes worth pondering

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Here are quotes from people across the ages. Their wisdom

comes from observation and experience. Let their wisdom

be our counsel.

 

Jim

LynnGroup Int'l

 

" If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that

much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes. "

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD

 

" And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors

to invent names for our diseases. " Plato

 

" It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors

do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within. "

Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

 

Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food.

Hippocrates

 

One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive.

The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive.

(Hieroglyph found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.)

 

What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Emerson

 

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every

problem as a nail.

Unknown

 

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient

who is suffering from it.

Maimonides

 

The germ is nothing; the soil is everything.

Louis Pasteur

 

Doctors give drugs of which they know little,

into bodies, of which they know less,

for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Voltaire

 

What ails the physician that he dies of the disease

That he would have cured in time gone by?

There died alike he who administered the drug and he who took it,

And he who imported and sold the drug, and he who bought it.

(Verses upon the death in Baghdad of the physician Yuhanna ibn

Masawayh in the year 857).

 

The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease.

Rig Veda IX. 7.9

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