“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
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Chuck Palahniuk555
American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
According to The Veterinarian (Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science) for 1851, edited by Mr. Percivall, this is Ben Jonson's "satirical definition of physic".
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“From henceforth, no medicine, no doctors, no drugs of any kind shall come into this house. \”
Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) British evangelist
Pledging his commitment to Faith Healing. <br class="br">Page 38 <br class="br"> The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e2RWZpOHfmoC|Wigglesworth:
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
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Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
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Donald A. Norman book The Design of Everyday Things
Source: The Design of Everyday Things (1988, 2002), Ch. 6, p. 173.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Les médecins administrent des médicaments dont ils savent très peu, à des malades dont ils savent moins, pour guérir des maladies dont ils ne savent rien. <br class="br">This attribution to Voltaire appears in Strauss' Familiar Medical Quotations (1968), p. 394, and in publications as early as 1956 http://books.google.pt/books?id=lCtCAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&dq=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=mbnWUsvDIfTB7Aaw_YD4Dw&redir_esc=y; the quotation in French does not, however, appear to be original, and is probably a relatively modern invention, only quoted in recent (21st century) published works, which attribute it to "Voltaire" without citing any source. <br class="br">Attributed
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
This attribution to Voltaire appears in Strauss' Familiar Medical Quotations (1968), p. 394, and in publications as early as 1956 http://books.google.pt/books?id=lCtCAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&dq=%22Doctors+are+men+who+prescribe+medicine+of%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=mbnWUsvDIfTB7Aaw_YD4Dw&redir_esc=y; the quotation in French does not, however, appear to be original, and is probably a relatively modern invention, only quoted in recent (21st century) published works, which attribute it to "Voltaire" without citing any source. <br class="br">Original: (fr) Les médecins administrent des médicaments dont ils savent très peu, à des malades dont ils savent moins, pour guérir des maladies dont ils ne savent rien.
