Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Complementary and Alternative Medicine/Quotes

The quotations prior to MFD
I count 5 quotes out 24 antagonistic to medical professional.

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."

"Avoid nostrums and patent medicines. The habitual use of any drug is harmful. The most eminent physicians are now agreed that very few drugs have any real curative value. The essential thing is right habits of life."

"Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within."

"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

"Water possesses no power whatever to cure any disease. Nature is the remedial principle."

"Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle--that all disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process."

"Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind."

"Homeopathy has introduced one essential amelioration in the practice of physic by amateur females; for its rules are excellent, its physicking comparatively harmless--the 'globule' is the one grain of folly which appears to be necessary to make any good thing acceptable. Let then women, if they will give medicine, give homeopathic medicine. It won't do any harm."

"It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort. The caution may seem useless, but it is quite surprising how many men (some women do it too), practically behave as if the scientific end were the only one in view, or as if the sick body were but a reservoir for stowing medicines into, and the surgical disease only a curious case the sufferer has made for the attendant's special information. This is really no exaggeration."

"We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting."

"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”

"Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live."

"The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually."

"The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable."

"A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution."

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”"

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

"So what is this mysterious thing, disease? Simply the effort to remove obstructing material from the organic domain, and to repair damages. Disease is a process of purification. Anthon01 04:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)