"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions,..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
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“It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.”
“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
“The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.”
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“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.”
“I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.”
“Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.”
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“And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.”
“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”
“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”