Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

William J. Mayo – US surgeon The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involv ...

Giles Ménage – French lexicographer A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death’s retaining fee. MenagianaPt II Menander ...

S.Weir Mitchell – American neurophysician and author The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance. ...

Montenegrin proverb In a good hand every sword cuts well. Montesquieu – French philosopher and jurist That kind of healt ...

Sir Frederick Walker Mott – British neurologist, psychiatrist, and sociologist We now recognise the brain as the seat of ...

Henry Needler – English musician Who formed the curious texture of the eye And cloath’d it with the various tunicles, An ...

Wilfrid G. Oakley – British physician, King’s College Hospital, London Man may be the captain of his fate, but his also the ...

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. The Principles and Practice of Medicinep. . Appleton, ...

Paracelsus c.– Swiss physician and alchemist These are the qualifications of a good surgeon: Regarding his innate temper ...

When moving forward toward the discovery of the unknown, the scientist is like a traveler who reaches higher and higher summits ...

John Pearson – English surgeon, London He who reduces the province of a Surgeon to the performance of operations, and co ...

Thomas Phaer ?– Sleep is the nourishment and food of a sucking child. The Book of Children Philemon ?–BC There is no ...

Sir Harry Platt – Professor of Orthopaedics, Manchester, and President Royal College of Surgeons of England A physician ...

Michael Polanyi – Hungarian chemist and social philosopher Genius seems to consist in the power of applying the original ...

Matthew Prior – English poet and diplomatist You tell your doctor, that ye’re ill; And what does he, but write a bill, O ...

James J. Putnam – No argument is needed to show what transforming power the mind can exert. Boston Medical and Surgical ...

Paul Reznikoff –? Conflict between science and religion should never exist. Their aims are entirely different—science tries ...

Karl von Rokitansky – Viennese pathologist The axiom of medicine is that natural science is its mother. Handbook of Pathol ...

Rufus of Ephesus AD– Roman physician I believe it is important to be informed of the nature of the disease in each individ ...

John of Salisbury c.– English churchman, philosopher, and scholar The common people say, that physicians are the class of ...