16 Quotes on Drugs

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Dotsie,

It would have been nice to see dates on these quotes. Some of them may have been

made 100 years ago. Which does not mean that they are not true, but they were

also saying that bleeding and purging with mercury compounds cured most

diseases. So, I would be happier if the MDs were contemporaries.

Dick

16 Quotes on Drugs

1. " The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians

superstitiously give in order to effect a cure. " E. Page, M.D.

2. " Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature they

can only work symptomatically. " Hans Kusche, M.D.

3. " If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be

bad for the fish and good for humanity " O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Med. Harvard

University)

4. " Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease, those

things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia medica is simply a

lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a word poisons. All are

incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact

in any manner with the living; all are poisons. " R.T. TraIl, M.D., in a two

and one half hour lecture to members of congress and the medical profession,

delivered at the sonian Institute in Washington D.C.

5. " Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition. "

, M.D.

6. " Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest,

and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of

transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later

on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the

patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time. "

. H. Kress, M.D.

7. " The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of

acute disease by drug poisoning. " Henry Lindlahr, M.D.

8. " Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably

helped by medicine. " C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)

9. " Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this

cause no drug can reach. " Wier Mitchel, M.D.

10. " The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease

and once from the medicine. " Osler, M.D.

11. " Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend

it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities. By taking drug -

medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed

and harder to cure. " Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of

Medicine.

12. " Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital

admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further, the

average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how

long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions. " Milton

Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)

13. " Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that

which would make a well man sick. " L.F. Kebler, M.D.

14. " What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science

when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that

there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug

is found? " H. Tilden, M.D.

15. " The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a

duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and

the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned. "

Armbruster, M. D.

16. " We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population

and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you

to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on

legal prescription drugs. " Mendelsohn, M.D

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16 Quotes on Drugs

1. " The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians

superstitiously give in order to effect a cure. " E. Page, M.D.

2. " Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very

nature they can only work symptomatically. " Hans Kusche, M.D.

3. " If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it

would be bad for the fish and good for humanity " O.W. Holmes, (Prof.

of Med. Harvard University)

4. " Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease,

those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia medica

is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a word poisons.

All are

incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in

contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons. " R.T. TraIl,

M.D., in a two and one half hour lecture to members of congress and

the medical profession,

delivered at the sonian Institute in Washington D.C.

5. " Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition. "

, M.D.

6. " Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's

protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway

of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned

with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may

disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though

unconscious of it at the time. " . H. Kress, M.D.

7. " The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the

suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning. " Henry Lindlahr, M.D.

8. " Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not

appreciably helped by medicine. " C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen.

Hospital)

9. " Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause,

and this cause no drug can reach. " Wier Mitchel, M.D.

10. " The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the

disease and once from the medicine. " Osler, M.D.

11. " Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to

recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities.

By taking drug - medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case

is further embarrassed and harder to cure. " Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice

President, Academy of Medicine.

12. " Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital

admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further,

the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance,

depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug

reactions. " Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology,

University of California)

13. " Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take

that which would make a well man sick. " L.F. Kebler, M.D.

14. " What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true

science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around

the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled

when the right drug is found? " H. Tilden, M.D.

15. " The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and

medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and

injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug

system will be abandoned. " Armbruster, M. D.

16. " We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male

population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.

It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with

millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs. "

Mendelsohn, M.D