#medici

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#grammar #grammar school #i #later #medicine

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. ↗

— John H. Tobe

#drugs #economy #healing #medicine #money

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. ↗

— David Riesman

#fullest #get #lives #medicine #our lives

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#humor #medicine #humor

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#adult #good #healthy #medicine #more

Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with practice and age; both depend on immediacy, precision, and opposable thumbs.) ↗

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

#medicine #music #age

I did want adventure. I didn’t want to prescribe Ritalin to ADHD kids and tell fat old men to get more exercise. I wanted to go to the heart of Africa. Cradling villages of starving, disease-ridden children. Reserving no luxuries for myself. We would share everything: “Here. This syringe is dirty. Careful.” Engaging the deadliest disease of all. The AIDS virus. The beauty of it’s DNA sequence, to be so extraordinarily complex without sacrificing elegance. The mystery. The danger. The romance as it waltzes with my white blood cells inside me. “Give it to me. Inject it,” I’d say. To be destroyed so efficiently. But I settled for less. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #medicine #beauty

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red. ↗

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

#death-and-dying #death-and-sickness #disease #disease-prevention #history

In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless patch of green known as "No Man's Land." Here 1,500 unidentified bodies are buried. At one time, their skin burned with yellow fever; now they lie in a cool, dark place where long ago their arms and legs, hands and feet, were intertwined for eternity. ↗

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

#elmwood #graveyard #graveyards #medicine #yellow

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of impact I will leave on others. I will never choose the destructive path of self and outward victimization again. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #life-story #medicine #poison