“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will ins…”

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

— Thomas Edison

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Title: Wikiquote: Thomas Edison
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This has been reprinted many times with slight variations on the wording; it is part of a much larger quote directly from Edison published in 1903:

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Edison, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Edison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

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