"The filling up of the arsenal, with the sulfonamides in the 1930s, then penicillin and the other antibiotics in the 1940s and 1950s, then drug upon drug, made many physicians too confident of their powers, and many laymen too certain that their doctors had a quick fix for every sickness. The trouble with being able to work miracles, virtually raising people from the dead, is that it tends to replace one kind of religion with another, one set of priests with another."
Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin
