Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

Clarence Darrow – US lawyer The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. A ...

Campbell Greig De Morgan – Professor of Anatomy, Middlesex Hospital, London Today the glands may be free; tomorrow they ma ...

Diphilus th century BC Athenian writer Time is a physician that heals every grief. Attributed Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfi ...

Michael Drayton – English poet Past cure, past care. England’s Heroical Epistles‘Richard the Second to Queene Isabel’ ( ...

Dutch proverbs Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot. Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. Hermann Ebbinghaus  ...

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue Men have e ...

Erik Erikson Contemporary The adolescent mind is essentially a mind of the moratorium, a psychosocial stage between childhood an ...

W. C. Fields – US actor and humourist After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. Attributed Lactantius Firm ...

Abraham Flexner – The investigator, obviously, observes, experiments and judges; so do the physician and surgeon who pra ...

French proverbs A surgeon should be young, a physician old. Also an Italian proverb A young physician fattens the churchyard. C. ...

Galen AD– Roman physician Surgery is the unceasing movement of steady, experienced hands. Definitiones medicaeXXXV I am of ...

German law Any person suffering from an hereditary disease may be rendered incapable of procreation by means of a surgical opera ...

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman – US writer on social and economic subjects Human life consists in mutual service. No g ...

Remy de Gourmont – French novelist, poet, and critic Before undergoing a surgical operation arrange your temporal affair ...

Robert Marcus Gunn – Scottish-born ophthalmologist, Moorfield’s Hospital, London In my experience it is most exceptional ...

Hammurabi – BC Babylonian king If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knoc ...

Ali ibn-Hazm – Arab theologian of Persian descent No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does no ...

Lorenz Heister – German professor of surgery In every surgical intervention, one should prefer the method which can be u ...

James B. Herrick – US Professor of Medicine, Chicago The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the p ...

Sneezing coming on, in the case of a person afflicted with hiccup, removes the hiccup. AphorismsVI. Opposites are cures for op ...