The unbiased opinion of most medical men of sound judgment and long experience...[holds that] the amount of death and disaster in the world would be less, if all disease were left to itself.
Harvard professor Jacob Bigelow, 1835.
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
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.
The college-birs are three Law, Physic and Divinity And while these three remain combined, They keep the world oppressed and blind... Now is the time to be set free, From priests' and Doctors' slavery.
19th century rhyme associated with the Thomsonian movement
We should not encourage the medical student to while away his time in the labyrinths of Chemistry and Physiology.
Harvard Medical School professor, 1871.
The objective of medicine is not the knowledge of the Disease, but the relieve of the suffering due to it
Miguel Ángel García, spanish medical doctor
Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
The only real difference between medicine and poison is the dose....and intent.
Oscar G. Hernandez, MD
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
