medicine

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

After dinner rest a while after supper walk a mile.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'

A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.

The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.