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Oliver Wendell Holmes--"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."

    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    U.S. author and physician

1860

John Harvey Kellogg --"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."

    John Harvey Kellogg
    The Simple Life in a Nutshell

1921

Andrew Weil, M.D. --"Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within."

    Andrew Weil, M.D,
    Health and Healing

1998

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

Bulgarian Proverb

Russell Thacher Trall 1 --"Water possesses no power whatever to cure any disease. Nature is the remedial principle."

    Russell Trall, M.D.

1861

Florence Nightingale 1 --"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."

    Florence Nightingale
    Notes on Nursing

1860

Florence Nightingale 2 --"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."

    Florence Nightingale
    Notes on Nursing

1860

Florence Nightingale 3 --"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."

    Florence Nightingale
    Notes on Nursing

1860

Florence Nightingale 4 --"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."

    Florence Nightingale
    Notes on Nursing

1860

Florence Nightingale 5 --"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."

    Florence Nightingale
    Notes on Nursing

1860

Benjamin Franklin 1 --"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

    Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
    American Statesman, Scientist, 
       Philosopher, Printer, Writer

and Inventor

Benjamin Franklin 2 --"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting."

    Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
    American Statesman, Scientist, 
       Philosopher, Printer, Writer

and Inventor

Hippocrates 1 --"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."

    Hippocrates, 460 BC - ca. 370 BC

Ancient Greek physician

Hippocrates 2 --"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

    Hippocrates, 460 BC - ca. 370 BC

Ancient Greek physician

Hippocrates 3 --"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”

    Hippocrates, 460 BC - ca. 370 BC

ancient Greek physician

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

    Brian Carter
    San Diego acupuncturist, herbalist,

and author

Greg Anderson 1 --"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."

    Greg Anderson
    American best-selling Author and 
       founder of the American Wellness
       Project

1964

Greg Anderson 2 --"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."

    Greg Anderson
    American best-selling Author
       and founder of the American
       Wellness Project

1964

Marcus Tullius Cicero --"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."

    Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC
    Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar,

Orator and Statesman

William Osler 1 --"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”"

    William Osler, 1849-1919

Father of Modern Medicine

William Osler 2 --"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

    William Osler, 1849-1919

Father of Modern Medicine

William Osler 3 --"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."

    William Osler, 1849-1919

Father of Modern Medicine

William Osler 4 --"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

    William Osler, 1849-1919

Father of Modern Medicine

Russell Thacher Trall 2 --"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."

    Russell Trall, M.D.
    Speech given in Washington, D.C.

1862

Richard Dawkins 1 --Defines alternative medicine as a "...set of practices which cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests. If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply...becomes medicine."

    Richard Dawkins
    Professor of the Public

Understanding of Science at Oxford

Richard Dawkins 2 --"There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work."

    Richard Dawkins
    Professor of the Public

Understanding of Science at Oxford

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