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• If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Running, Hurt

  Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.127, Bantam

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• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

  Ida Tarbell

  Data, Figures, Sentiments

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1915). “The Ways of Woman”

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• Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Magic, Sound, Invisible

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• We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Thinking, Poison, Quacks

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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• I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  College, Thinking, Doctors

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• The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own strengths and weaknesses. The need concept is criticized as being too mechanical, as denying the autonomy and individuality of the human person, and as implying that the human being is a machine which "needs" fuel in the shape of food, engine dope in the shape of medicine, and spare parts provided by the surgeon.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Dope, Individuality, Needs

  "The Concept of Need for Health Services". The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Volume 44, No. 4, Part 2, p. 202, 1967.

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• Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Yield, Reason, Operations

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• We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Women, Heart

  Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

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• A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Interesting, Illness, Persons

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• Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Advice, Textbooks

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Passion makes the old medicine new:
  Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
  Passion is the elixir that renews:
  how can there be weariness
  when passion is present?
  Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
  seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Elixir

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

  Richard Whately

  Knowing, Wholesomeness, Eloquence

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.200

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• It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Poison, Offers

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• I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

  Steve Goodier

  Laughter, Healthy, Right Now

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• Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws--hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit--is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Spiritual, Health, Law

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• Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.

  Mort Kondracke

  Hype, Stories, Phases

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• Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

  Patch Adams

  Life, Science, Healthy

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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  Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

  Bo Burnham

  Laughter, Laughter Is The Best Medicine, Knows

  "Words, Words, Words". Stand-up comedy routine by Bo Burnham, 2010.

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• The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

  Thomas R. Insel

  News Stories, Intervention, Good News

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• The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

  Eric Topol

  Heart, Long, Holy Grail

  "Will you have a heart attack? New test can possibly predict", www.eurekalert.org. March 21, 2012.

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• I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.

  Neil Sedaka

  People, Suffering, Records

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• If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Struggle, Illinois

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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