Quotes from the wise

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Some remedies are worse than the disease.Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)

Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing.Voltaire (1694-1778)

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire (1694-1778)

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. lin (1706-1790)

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. Osler (1849-1919)

The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.Ellen White, co-founder Seventh Day Adventists, 1866

The prerequisite for today's medical policy is naturally the currently predominant system of medicine. The sick are the source of income, therefore it is necessary for sick people to be there, yes, it proves advantageous if one makes the people artificially sick.Dr. med. Steintl: 'International Medical Policy', 1938, Berlin

Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has become one of the most vicious rackets in the country.Dr. Lyman Loffler, as cited by Bealle in The Drug Story, 1949

When will they realize that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150,000 preparations are now in use. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages hit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off...We simply don't have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful contribution is the new drug to counteract the untoward effect of other new drugs.Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell University Medical College, Time, May 26, 1961

Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation.French physician, Prof. Maurice Delort, inaugural session of the Academy de Bourges, December 16, 1962

Every month, millions are in fact being damaged by treatment which is supposed to be helping them.Dr. Werner Lehmpfuhl, general practitioner in Hanover, in the weekly magazine Welt am Sonntag, July 29, 1973

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.Ivan Illich (medical historian), on Swiss television, Lugano, 1975.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.Ivan Illich, in Limits to Medicine, 1976

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.Linus ing, Ph.D., two time Nobel Prize winner, in Outrage, Oct/Nov 1986

....the simple unadulterated truth is that they are neither winning the fight against cancer nor are they about to find a cure. They have been claiming that a cure is just around the corner for a good 50 years or more, but the sad fact remains that in spite of the countless millions being collected, cancer in its most serious forms - in the lung, breast and bowel - is no nearer to being beaten today than it was at the turn of the century. Indeed, in some cases - breast cancer for example - the exact opposite is true; the scientists are actually losing the fight.Cancer Control Society, Great Britain, in Outrage (magazine), Oct/Nov 1986 Economics and politics simply intertwine in shaping conventional medicine's approach to cancer. Very simply put, treating disease is enormously profitable, preventing disease is not.The British Cancer Control Society, Outrage, Oct/Nov 1986

The superior doctor prevents sickness;The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;Chinese Proverb