Medicine is the art and science of healing.

Historical quotes

• Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum
  • Translation: Medicine was so advanced in Salerno that there was no place for illness.[1]
  • Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno (1058-1085)

• If you know neither the terminology nor the concepts, you're ignorant. If you know the terminology, but you don't know the concepts, you're dangerous.
  • Jacob M. Appel, Arborophilia (2005)

• The unbiased opinion of most medical men of sound judgment and long experience...[holds that] the amount of death and disaster in the world would be less, if all disease were left to itself.
  • Harvard professor Jacob Bigelow, 1835.

• Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
  • Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

• Our diseases are so old fashioned, they can't keep up with the new medicines.
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov All About Everything

• Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
  • Ivan Illich, in Medical Nemesis (1976)

• The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!
  • Mehmet ildan, in Quotations^{[specific citation needed]}

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