An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
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