| Author | Quote |
| P. G. Wodehouse | It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
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| P. J. O'Rourke | Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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| Pam Ayres | Medicinal discovery,
It moves in mighty leaps,
It leapt straight past the common cold
And give it us for keeps. |
| Paracelsus | The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books.... |
| Patanjali, translated from Sanskrit | Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. |
| Paul Berg |
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. |
| Paul Dean | The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable. |
| Paul Farmer | It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. |
| Paul Tournier | Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. |
| Paul Tournier | Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. |
| Pauline Hanson | The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. |
| Pearl Williams | You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you''ll be afraid to cough. |
| Peter Lewis Allen | Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? |
| Peter Lewis Allen | Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. |
| Peter McWilliams | Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that."
Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. |
| Peter McWilliams | The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. |
| Peter McWilliams | For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
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| Peter Mere Latham | Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. |
| Peter Mere Latham | Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. |