A night with Venus means a lifetime with Mercury. (Told by a pharmacy lecturer with reference to the first drug used in syphilisis. Later the quip was that the wages of sin is penicillin)
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
Prov. 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
The those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control.--Max Bircher (As quoted in Gordon Young's _Doctors Without Drugs_ [1962])
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.~ Thomas Campion 1567-1620 , The Epigrams of Thomas Campion.
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)
All those who drink of this remedy recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who die. Therefore, it is obvious that it fails only in incurable cases. --Galen (circa 100 A.D.)
The Lord created medicines from the earth, and a sensible man will not despise them. ECCLESIASTICUS (38:4)
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." -Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
All those who drink of this remedy recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who die. Therefore, it is obvious that it fails only in incurable cases.--Galen (circa 100 A.D.)
Find that medicine, if you can,
For your decrepit man;
Who would fain his strength renew
Were it but to pleasure you
Robert Herrick, 'To His Mistress'
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. -Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.~Malcolm Muggeridge, New Statesman (Aug 3, 1962)
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -Richard Nixon, U.S. President
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.-Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
The best of healers is good cheer. Pindar, "Nemean Ode"
A healthy population means a dead pharmaceutical industry. -Hans Reesch, Naked Express Second Witch
When religion was strong and science weak,men looked to magic for medicine; Now,when science is strong and religion weak,men look to medicine for magic.--Thomas Szasz ,_The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary_.
Physicians pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of which they know nothing. -Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
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