Thomas Jefferson Medicine Quotations

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

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

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.