The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Preventive medicine isn’t part of a physician’s everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.
The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not ‘What disease does my patient have?’ but ‘Who is my patient?’ By ‘who,’ the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body and reduce it to harmony.
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.