Quotes on Health and Medicine
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ Thomas Edison
“All that man needs for good health and healing can be found in nature, it is the job of science to find it.” -Paracelsus, Father of Pharmacology, 1493-1541
It is preferable to not have the disease, than to have a good cure. – Don P.
Plants Eat Dirt, People and Animals Can’t Eat Dirt. People and Animals Eat Plants. Don P
Don’t Feed Me Dirt – So your vitamin and mineral supplements need to be from 100% plant sources not lab made chelates or pharmaceutical dirt minerals and petroleum vitamins called natural. Even micro-crushed rocks are still dirt. Don’t let anyone deceive you into buying dirt pills. Spend the money for 100% plant source nutrition.
“If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow” -
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research.
Of course by this quote they mean, we must get our Drs. to take over nutrition or we will lose medical control of people since nutrition is preferable due to its safety and results exceeding that of medication.
“There are two obstacles to vibrant health and longevity: ignorance and complacency.” - World Health Organization
One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy over nutrition. It’s a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation. — Dr. Royal Lee
…the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936…….while 553,251 died of cancer. – Gary Null, et al., Death by Medicine
Here is a very interesting quote from Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was one of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, served as personal physician to General George Washington, was a Veteran of the Revolutionary War, and was also a delegate to the Continental Congress. Apparently a prophet too!
“Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, it will be the constitute of the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are Un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic . . . The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.” - Dr B. Rush
It is so hard to get anything out of the dead hand of medical tradition. – – Oliver Wendall Holmes
Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities. – John R. Lee, M.D.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. - Lewis Thomas, NY Times Magazine
The very first requirement of a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. – Florence Nightengale.
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
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure the patient with food. Hippocrates, 420 BC
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. – Pierre Corneille, Le Cid
When a man is laboring under the pain of any distemper, it is then that he recollects there is a God, and that he himself is but a man. – Pliny
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. - Hippocrates
And I do not take my medicines from the apothecaries; their shops are but foul sculleries, from which comes nothing but foul broths. As for you, you defend your kingdom with belly-crawling and flattery. How long do you think this will last? … let me tell you this: every little hair on my neck knows more than you and all your scribes, and my shoebuckles are more learned than your Galen and Avicenna, and my beard has more experience than all your high colleges. — Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
Every creature has its own food, and an appropriate alchemist with the task of dividing it … The alchemist takes the food and changes it into a tincture which he sends through the body to become blood and flesh. This alchemist dwells in the stomach where he cooks and works. The man eats a piece of meat, in which is both bad and good. When the meat reaches the stomach, there is the alchemist who divides it. What does not belong to health he casts away to a special place, and sends the good wherever it is needed. That is the Creator’s decree… That is the virtue and power of the alchemist in man. — Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ~Thomas Jefferson
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