Health & Medicine
Below are health quotes dating back thousands of years:
"One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive." (Hieroglyph found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.)
"At the end of times the merchants of the world will deceive the nations
through their Pharmacia."
(sorcery) - Rev 18:23
"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 (1694-1778)
"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it." Maimonides (1135-1204)
"Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational." Hippocrates (c. 460-370 B.C.)
"Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food." Hippocrates (c. 460-370 B.C.)
"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases." Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"When you are sick of sickness, you are no longer sick." Old Chinese Proverb
"The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease." Rig Veda IX. 7.9
"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 work of the doctor will, in the future, be ever more that of an educator, and ever less that of a man who treats ailments." Lord Horder
"All drugs are poisons, the benefit depends on the dosage." Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
"All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of good science is to find it." Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still get your money." Moliere (from: "A Physician in Spite of Himself," 1664)
"Never, no never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another." Johann Christoph Frederick von Schiller (1759-1805)
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
"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. (1875-1965)
"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 fish." Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, M.D. (1841-1935)
"Throughout history we have known that the best medicine facilitates individual self-actualization in harmony with the forces of nature - rather than relying on commercial intervention." Brian David Lynch
"Nutrition as it is today does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this." Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
"A (non-hybridized, non-GMO, unsprayed, non-chemically waxed) apple a day keeps the doctor away." Mom