Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

Eric Hodgins – US writer and editor A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do. Episode Stan ...

It is better for all the world if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their i ...

Huai-nan Tze (Liu An) diedBC Doctors cannot cure their own complaints. Attributed Huang Ti c.BC Yellow Emperor I have hea ...

William Humphreys Contemporary Welsh vascular surgeon Surgery is an art, and the best way to teach an art is an apprenticeship s ...

Sir Julian Huxley – British biologist and author The human race will be the cancer of the planet. Attributed Evolution i ...

Hope is the physician of each misery. The silliest charm gives more comfort to thousands in sorrow and pain Than they will ever ...

Thomas Jefferson – US president and philosopher The office of surgeon has been considered as on a footing with that of c ...

I know not that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured. The IdlerNo.  ...

Harry Keen Professor of Human Metabolism, Guy’s Hospital, London Medicine has been caught up like all other human activities in ...

Alfred Korzyybski – US philosopher and semanticist, Connecticut God may forgive you your sins, but your nervous system w ...

Andrew Lang – Scottish man of letters He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts—for support rather than for ill ...

Antoine Lavoisier – French chemist We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot dec ...

Alain René Lesage – French novelist and dramatist We come into the world with the mark of our descent, and with our char ...

The material which I have employed is carbolic or phenic acid, a volatile organic compound, which appears to exercise a peculiar ...

Tony Lopez – Paediatrician, Institute of Child Health, Bristol, UK Our clinical practice is steered by ethical principles. T ...

John Lyly – English dramatist and novelist The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever. Euphues The wound ...

Sir James Mackenzie – British physician and pioneer cardiologist The seeming exactness of a mechanical device appeals mu ...

Ralph Herman Major – US medical historian One day walking in the court of the Louvre he (Laennec ‒) saw some chi ...

Everett Dean Martin – US educator, New York A crowd is a device for indulging ourselves in a kind of temporary insanity ...

The impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy...there were tears and laughter, happiness and woe; it was tedious and inter ...