1918 in Science - Medicine

Medicine

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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:

    “We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
    —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)

    “Authority, though it err like others,
    Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
    That skins the vice o’ the top.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucius.