Herophilos Quote

Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence.


In: Samuel Evans Massengill, A Sketch of Medicine and Pharmacy and a View of Its Progress by the, Massengill Family from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century (p. 28), The S.E. Massengill Company. Bristol, Tennessee, USA. 1943


Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence.

Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence.

Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence.

Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if employed with reason and prudence.