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What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.
What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Herbert M. Shelton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Herbert M. Shelton, based on documented lifetime 1895 to 1985. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2569840 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2569840 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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