Sir Henry Thompson –
London surgeon and urologist to royalty
Hence unwittingly these new instruments were
absolutely free from any trace of bacterial taint
through previous use for other patients.
Attributed to Thompson and quoted in Harley Streetp. , by
Reginald Pound. Michael Joseph, London (),
explaining the absence of infection for the lithotomy on the
Belgian king Leopold
Hamish Thomson –
British surgeon, Gloucester
It is one of life’s little ironies that surgical disease
when not afflicting the unmentionable tends to
favour the inaccessible.
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (College
Bulletin)March ()
Henry David Thoreau –
US writer
Decay and disease are often beautiful like the
pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of
consumption.
JournalJune ()
’Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Attributed
Jurgen Thorowald ?–?
US surgeon
The status and progress of medicine ought always
to be judged primarily from the point of view of
the suffering patient, and never from the point of
view of one who has never been ill.
The Century of the Surgeon. Pantheon, New York ()
Count Leo Tolstoy –
Russian novelist
All happy families resemble one another, but each
unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna KareninaPt , Ch.
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be
he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He
supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the
craving for sympathy that every human sufferer
feels.
War and PeacePt , Ch.
William Whiteman Carlton Topley
–
British pathologist and immunologist, London
I believe that a research committee can do one
useful thing and one only. It can find the workers
best fitted to attack a particular problem, bring
them together, give them the facilities they need,
and leave them to get on with the work.
Authority, Observation and Experiment in Medicine
Jesse Torrey –
Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk
constantly, will at length induce a decay of health,
and hectic fever.
The Moral InstructorPt IV, Sect. II, Ch.
Stephen E.Toulmin –
British born US professor of multi-ethnic studies,
Southern California
The more we treat the theories of our predecessors
as myths, the more inclined we shall be treat our
own theories as dogmas.
Journal of the History of Ideas: ()Henri Toulouse-Lautrec –
French painter
I can drink without danger, I am so near to the
ground.
Comment to Charles BougetArnold Toynbee –
British historian
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of
our domesticated plants and animals, but we have
been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of
ourselves.
National ObserverJune ()
The twentieth century will be remembered chiefly,
not as an age of political conflicts and technical
inventions, but as an age in which human society
dared to think of the health of the whole human
race as a practical objective.
AttributedSir Frederick Treves –
English surgeon who operated on King Edward VII
The symptoms of disease are marked by purpose,
and the purpose is beneficent. The processes of
disease aim not at the destruction of life, but at
the saving of it.
Address to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution,
October ()Anthony Trollope –
English novelist
A physician should take his fee without letting his
left hand know what his right hand was doing; it
should be taken without a thought, without a
look, without a move of the facial muscles; the
true physician should hardly be aware that the
last friendly grasp of the hand had been made
precious by the touch of gold.
Doctor ThorneCh. IIIThéodore Tronchin –
Swiss physician from Geneva and discoverer of lead
poisoning
In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of
omission venial.
Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine:
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