Medicine
- Blackout (alcohol-related amnesia)
- Syncope (medicine), a loss of consciousness, also known as fainting
- Deep water blackout (loss of consciousness)
- Shallow water blackout (loss of consciousness)
- Blackout g-force induced loss of hearing
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)