
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
Source: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), p. 105.
Book I, Ch. 4 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3187/3187-h/3187-h.htm#link2HCH0004
Christian Science (1907)
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
Source: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), p. 105.
“Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.”
The Remedy Worse than the Disease (1714).
Ancient Medicine
Context: Certain s and physicians say that it is not possible for any one to know medicine who does not know what man is, and that who ever would cure men properly, must learn this in the first place. But this saying rather appertains to philosophy, as Empedocles and certain others have described what man in his origin is, and how he first was made and constructed. But I think whatever such has been said or written by sophist or physician concerning nature has less connexion with the art of medicine than with the art of painting. And I think that one cannot know anything certain respecting nature from any other quarter than from medicine... Wherefore it appears to me necessary to every physician to be skilled in nature, and strive to know... what man is in relation to the articles of food and drink, and to his other occupations, and what are the effects of each of them to every one.<!--pp. 174-175
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Albury Conference, 1944
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
Source: http://www.australianquotes.com/quotes_1950-present.php
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
New York State Journal of Medicine, review of Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind.