The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.
If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.
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