Autres citations de Marcel Proust sur ce thème:
"Pour chaque maladie que les médecins guérissent avec des médicaments, ils en provoquent dix chez les personnes saines en leur inoculant le virus mille fois plus puissant que n'importe quel microbe: l'idée qu'on est malade." / "For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill." / "Para cada enfermedad que los doctores curan con medicamentos, provocan otras diez en personas sanas inoculándolos con el virus que es mil veces más poderoso que cualquier otro microbio: la idea de que uno está enfermo".
"Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time." / "In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time."
"A doctor who doesn’t say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured."
"La médecine a fait quelques petits progrès dans ses connaissances depuis Molière, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire." / "Medicine has made a few, small advances in knowledge since Molière, but none in its vocabulary."
"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey." / "Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey."
"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."
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D'autres citations de Marcel Proust se lisent ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/200321/marcel-proust
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Le triomphe de la médecine est illustré ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/030420/le-confinement-ou-le-triomphe-de-la-medecine
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