Quotes on prescription drugs
1. The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians
superstitiously give in order to affect a cure.
Charles E. Page, M.D.
2. Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature
they can only work symptomatically.
Hans Kusche, M.D.
3. If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea,
it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity.
O.W. Holmes, Prof.of Med. Harvard University
4. Drug medications consist in employing, as remedies for disease,
those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia
medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs in a
word poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce
disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all
are poisons.
R.T. TraIl, M.D., in a two and one half hour lecture to members
of congress and the medical profession, delivered at the
Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
5. Every drug increases and complicates the patient's condition.
Robert Henderson, M.D.
6. Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's
protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the
pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system
has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present
symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse
condition, though unconscious of it at the time.
Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
7. The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression
of acute disease by drug poisoning.
Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
8. Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably
helped by medicine.
Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen.Hospital)