Medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the applied science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness in human beings.

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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:

    “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

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

    Confucius.

    “He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)