Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

Pam Ayres – English poet and humorist Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold ...

Middle age has been said to be the time of a man’s life when, if he has two choices for an evening, he takes the one that gets h ...

Lindsey E. Beaton – US psychiatrist We are physicians. It is a proud title. It carries prerogatives; it carries privileges. ...

A man may be said to be in a state of health when he is not conscious of any uneasy sensations, the primary seat of which can be ...

W. I. B. Beveridge – Professor of veterinary science People whose minds are not disciplined by training often tend to notice ...

August Bier – German professor of surgery A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. Attributed M ...

 . ·    Kenneth T. Bird – US physician A medical chest specialist is long-winded about the short-w ...

Keith Botsford Contemporary Americans are indeed in a constant state of alarm about the immortality to which they seem to think ...

Charles Brook UK surgeon The good physician is a disciple of Paracelsus, who was a sceptic, while the good surgeon is a disciple ...

Sir James Bryce ‒ British liberal politician Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the rea ...

George W. Bush ‒ President of the USA Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know them. Quoted Octobe ...

Rohan Candappa ‒ London-born writer Eat less fresh food. Eat more things containing preservatives. Preservatives are called ...

Catherine II ‒ Empress of Russia Reduce the mortality rate, consult doctors, do something about the care of young children ...

Charles, Prince of Wales – First in line to British throne I believe it is most certainly possible to design features in suc ...

Chinese proverbs continued The unlucky doctor treats the head of a disease; the lucky doctor its tail. To be uncertain is to be ...

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. Tusculanarum DisputationumBk III Diseases of t ...

Warren H. Cole –? US surgeon Too often surgical therapy for elective conditions is postponed in elderly patients in the hope ...

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. The Speckled Band Confucius – ...

Nathaniel Cotton – British physician and poet Would you extend your narrow span, And make the most of life you can; Would ...

Edwina Currie – English Conservative politician My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is ...