Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
The best medicine is to teach people how not to need it.
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little, into bodies of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.