Quotes of the week August 20, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Holistic health , trackbackAn excerpt from my doctor’s e-mail when I complained to him about the side effects of a medication:
‘Dear Jane,
A very famous American Professor of Pharmacology, Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) said over a hundred years ago:
“If all medications bar seven were thrown into the sea it would do much good to the human race and we might even consider ‘throwing’ it into the Thames.”
When I expressed my appreciation it was followed up by another quotation by Mark Twain:
“Be careful of reading health books. You may die from a misprint.”
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