Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

Béla Schick – Austrian paediatrician The human body is like a bakery with a thousand windows. We are looking into only o ...

The sound clinician attacks the core of the problem and avoids being mousetrapped by tangential data. The Pharos of Alpha Omega ...

Marie de Sévingé – French writer of letters It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them. L ...

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s Dilemma() To give ...

William Shippen Jr – US obstetrician Experience is the mother of truth; and by experience we learn wisdom. Quoted by Bet ...

Silius Italicus ?– Roman orator and poet Men leave arms and legs behind, severed by the frost, and the cruel cold cuts off ...

Sydney Smith – British churchman and essayist and wit I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. Letters to A ...

M.Therese Southgate – US physician and medical historian Unfortunately, too many authors write as though they will never hav ...

Issac Starr –? Too much emphasis on standards is a cause of decay; often it is a psychological defense mechanism set up by p ...

Johann Stieglitz – I have often thought it would be important to instruct physicians how to behave in cases of incurable ...

Swahili proverb The sick man is the garden of the physicians. Swedish proverb With a young lawyer you lose your inheritance; wit ...

Rabindranath Tagore – Bengali poet and mystic Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And be ...

Sir Henry Thompson – London surgeon and urologist to royalty Hence unwittingly these new instruments were absolutely fre ...

Wilfrid Trotter – British surgeon, University College Hospital, London Mr. Anaesthetist, if the patient can keep awake, ...

Jerry Vale Whiskey is the most popular of all the remedies that won’t cure a cold. Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations(Leonard Loui ...

Rudolf Virchow – German pathologist A cell in which every cell is a citizen. Die Cellularpathologie () Disease, Life ...

Johann Wagner – German pathologist The auditory nerves were atrophied. The convolutions of the brain, which was rather sof ...

Sir Reginald Watson-Jones – British orthopaedic surgeon It is worse to sprain an ankle than to break it. Quoted in Watson- ...

John Wesley – Evangelist and founder of Methodism In former times people treated themselves, but the physicians then conco ...

John Wilkes – English politician The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. Attributed in The Doctor(Sou ...