Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
To give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting
off your leg, is enough to make one despair of
political humanity.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
He may be hungry, weary, sleepy, run down by
several successive nights disturbed by that
instrument of torture, the night bell; but who ever
thinks of this in the face of sudden sickness or
accident? We think no more of the condition of a
doctor attending a case than the condition of a
fireman at a fire.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its
mortification and my death may prove that I was
wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever
prove that it would not have mortified had I been
obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for
the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
It does happen exceptionally that a practising
doctor makes a contribution to science... but it
happens much oftener that he draws disastrous
conclusions from his clinical experience because
he has no conception of scientific method, and
believes, like any rustic, that the handling of
evidence and statistics needs no expertness.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor
exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who
defended the person hanged.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
When men die of disease they are said to die from
natural causes. When they recover (and they mostly
do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor’s
Dilemma()
Stimulate the phagocytes!
Sir Bloomfield Bonnington’s cry in The Doctor’s Dilemma
()
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Man and SupermanAct. ‘Maxims for Revolutionists’
Mens sana in corpore sano is a foolish saying. The
sound body is a product of the sound mind.
Man and SupermanAct. ‘Maxims for Revolutionists’
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy
whose teeth are sound.
Mans and SupermanAct. ‘Maxims for Revolutionists’
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
Man and SupermanAct. ‘Maxims of Revolutionists’
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to
bother about whether you are happy or not. The
cure for it is occupation.
MisalliancePreface, ‘Parents and Children’
No man can be a pure specialist without being in
the strict sense an idiot.
Attributed
An asylum for the sane would be empty in
America.
Attributed
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste
it on children.
Attributed
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem
without creating ten more.
AttributedPercy Bysshe Shelley –
English poet
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which
adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not
infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has
been fairly tried.
Queen MabNotesWilliam Shenstone –
English poet
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the
most perfect beauty.
Essays on Men and Manners‘On Taste’John Shepherd –
British surgeon
Every surgeon should be something of a physician.
A Concise Surgery of the Acute Abdomen. Churchill
Livingstone, Edinburgh ()Richard Brinsley Sheridan –
Irish-born British dramatist
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you
owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
St. Patrick’s DayAct II, Sc. ivCharles Scott Sherrington –
British physiologist
If it is for mind that we are searching the brain,
then we are supposing the brain to be much more
than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to
be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers
as well.
Man on his natureMichael B. Shimkin –
US Professor of Community Medicine and Oncology
Clinical observations, classifications, and theories
of cancer extend to the dawn of medical history.
Cancer, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis, Ackerman and
del Regato Mosby () · .