Bottle of Bayer's heroin - Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with a strong cough
Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment
Mariani wine was the most famous Coca wine around 1875. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal
A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim, Germany). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine
Opium for Asthma - Considered safe since it contained no more than 40% alcohol opium
Cocaine Tablets - All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them in the 1900's for a maximum performance. Great to 'smooth' the voice
Cocaine Toothache Drops - This would make them sleep well - Opium with 46% alcohol
Opium for Newborns - Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy
No wonder they were called 'The Good Old Days'!
QuotaBillsDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Christopher Walken
Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin
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Time is generally the best doctor. - Ovid
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. - Pierre-August Renoir
Surgery is the cry of defeat in medicine. - Martin H. Fischer
Pain and suffering are God's megaphone. - C S Lewis
A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. - WC Fields
After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. - WC Fields
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. - Chinese Proverb
Document: Repeating what your Doctor told you in your own words - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Chiropractor: A Doctor who works his fingers to the bone - yours - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. - Jodi Picoult
Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation. - James Purdy
I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything. - Radhika Apte
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. - Arlen Specter
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. - Spider Robinson
A woman doctor is only good for women's problems - like your groinocology - Archie Bunker
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell
Health is like money - we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. - Josh Billings
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. - African Proverb
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. - Robert Orben
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
Even if the doctor does not give you a year ... make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. - Mark Hyman
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. - James B. Herrick
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler
The public blabbers about preventive medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. - Martin H. Fischer
The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron
Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp
I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?" - Steven Wright
Every essential oil has a healing purpose. I think it's a great gift because it's something that elevates your mood and your health. - Yolanda Hadid
Where we always start is: What's the user's itch? What's their pain point that occurs frequently enough to build a habit around? - Nir Eyal
I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me. - Randy Kagan
In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine. - Dave deBronkart