Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

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Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations ...

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Oxford Medical Publications Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations Peter McDonald 1 ...

Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Univ ...

Dedication To my late father George McDonald (1918–1983) whose love of words both ancient and modern was as fine a legacy as any ...

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Preface The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotationsis intended to be a rich source of quotations covering a variety of medically ...

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Acknowledgements Sister Annie Driscoll of St. Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, UK; Dr Neville P. Robinson, Northwick Park and ...

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Contents Quotations  Bibliography  Index  ...

How to Use the Dictionary The sequence of entries is by alphabetical order of author, usually by surname but with occasional exc ...

William O. Abbot – US physician and inventor of intestinal tube As an adult she had her organs removed one by one. Now she ...

African proverbs Filthy water cannot be washed. If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ...

Sir Christopher Andrews – Director, World Influenza Centre, London Influenza is something unique. It behaves epidemiologic ...

Anonymous continued Have faith in the Lord but use sulphur for the itch. Here lies one who for medicines would not give A little ...

The comforting, if spurious, precision of laboratory results has the same appeal as the lifebelt to the weak swimmer. Lancet:  ...

Arabic proverbs continued For most diagnoses all that is needed is an ounce of knowledge, an ounce of intelligence, and a pound ...

Richard Asher – British physician and writer Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all ...