Avicenna Quotes

Many years ago doctors would bleed sick patients with leeches. Today, the insurance companies do that.

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she could. I can just about stomach going to a chiropractor and I visited a talented one when I was there, but when he tried a needle on me, it was horrible. My muscles tightened and it didn't work at all.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

Some alternative medicines work when the instructions are followed. But I always recommend seeing a medical professional.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.