"Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements;..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
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“Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.”
“To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.”
“A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.”
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“Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.”
“Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.”
“When men die of disease they are said to die fromnatural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)the doctor gets the credit of curing them.”
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“Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.”
“To the sick, while there is life there is hope.[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]”
“The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.”