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Sara Murray Jordan

  • “Nobody should smoke cigarettes — and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house ...”

    • Sara Murray Jordan,
    • in Eleanor Harris, "First Lady of the Lahey Clinic," Reader's Digest ()

  • “In medicine as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.”

    • Sara Murray Jordan,
    • in The New York Times ()

  • “A much more effective and lasting method of face-lifting than surgical technique is happy thinking, new interests, and outdoor exercise.”

    • Sara Murray Jordan

  • “Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.”

    • Sara Murray Jordan

Sara Murray Jordan, U.S. gastroenterologist

(1884 - 1950)

Full name: Sara Claudia Murray Jordan.