Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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John Henshaw, fully Bishop John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw

Afflictions are the medicine of the mind. If they are not toothsome, let it suffice that they are wholesome. It is not required in physic that it should please, but heal.

Character | Mind | Wisdom |

Sidney Howard, fully Sidney Coe Howard

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat, and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances, and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate, and afflicted, and oppressed, and tell them of the consolations of religion. I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

Character | Circumstances | Good | Heart | Method | Religion | Wants |

Ayurveda NULL

Anything in the world, absolutely anything, can serve as medicine if administered at the right time and in the right place.

Right | Time | Wisdom | World |

Martin Henry Fischer

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Art | Practice | Wisdom |

Walter Haddon

Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.

Mind | Music | Wisdom |

Heinrich Heine

The Bible is the great medicine chest of humanity.

Bible | Humanity | Wisdom | Bible |

Alfred William Hunt

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Heart | Music | Wisdom |

Thomas Jefferson

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Government | Health | Little | Rebellion | Sound | Wisdom |

Thomas Jefferson

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in the punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Good | Government | Health | Little | Observation | People | Punishment | Rebellion | Rights | Sound | Truth | Wisdom | World |

John Logan

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Mind | Music | Wisdom |

Melvin L. Morse

I feel that just understanding near-death experiences will be our first step at healing the great division between science and religion that started with Isaac Newton almost three hundred years ago. Educating physicians, nurses, and ourselves about what people experience in those final hours will shatter our prejudices about the ways we think about medicine and life.

Death | Experience | Life | Life | People | Religion | Science | Understanding | Will | Wisdom | Think |

William Osler, fully Sir William Osler

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest failure which distinguishes man from animals.

Desire | Failure | Man | Wisdom | Failure |

Harold J. Reilly

Rest has cured more people than all the medicine in the world.

People | Rest | Wisdom | World |

Beverly Rubik

[Paraphrase from “Brain and Mind” article] “Local” healing reflects information from subtle bioenergy fields. By contrast, healing that appears non-local in space and time may be mediated by “information associated with conscious intention”... In electromagnetic healing... the living human organism contains many highly sensitive natural oscillators that join to form a collective “biofield.” This field is “a collective property of the organism and cannot be reduced to biomolecular events.” In this case, information is transmitted by external fields of similar frequency, with healing occurring through a “tuning” effect... “Information is about relationship and exists only in relationship.” Therefore, information grounded in love - “the highest-quality relationship” - may produce healing by overcoming information originated from the more mechanical levels of physical organization... “For science and medicine to embrace life’s full capacity and the full human potential we need to go beyond mechanical concepts that were developed for machines.”

Capacity | Contrast | Events | Intention | Life | Life | Love | Machines | Mind | Need | Organization | Property | Relationship | Science | Space | Time | Wisdom |

Norm Shealy, fully Dr. C. Norman Shealy

The greatest deficit in academic medicine is that it has generally failed to approach the problem of preventing disease or health promotion.... we are too busy taking care of people with disease to be bothered with preventing it.

Care | Disease | Health | People | Wisdom |

Paul Dudley White

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

Psychology | Will | Wisdom | Wise | World |

Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine NULL

To administer medicine to diseases which have already developed and thereby suppress bodily chaos which has already occurred is comparable to the behavior of those who would begin to dig a well after they have grown thirsty, or those who would begin to cast weapons after they have engaged in battle.

Battle | Behavior | Weapons | Wisdom |