The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Art is a kind of illness.