Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

William O. Abbot –

US physician and inventor of intestinal tube

As an adult she had her organs removed one by
one. Now she is a mere shell with symptoms
where her organs used to be.
Quoting the dangers of overzealous treatment of non-organic
disease in: Dictionary of Medical Eponyms, (nd edn), p. ,
Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon, Lancashire, UK ()

John Abernethy –

English Surgeon, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London

Private patients, if they do not like me, can go
elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am
bound to take care of.
Memoirs of John AbernethyCh. , George Macilwain

The hospital is the only proper College in which to
rear a true disciple of Aesculapius.
Memoirs of John AbernethyCh. , George Macilwain

There is no short cut, nor ‘royal road’ to the
attainment of medical knowledge.
Hunterian Oration ()

Sir Adolf Abrams

British physician, Westminster Hospital, London

In my experience of anorexia nervosa it is
exclusively a disease of private patients.
Attributed

Goodman Ace –

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a
teenager. He had it before it became popular.
The New Yorker()

Samuel Hopkins Adams –

US journalist and author

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market
for most proprietary remedies.
Collier’s WeeklyOctober ()

With a few honorable exceptions the press of the
United States is at the beck and call of the patent
medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify
news possibly affecting these interests, but they
sometimes become their agents.
Collier’s WeeklyOctober ()

With the exception of lawyers, there is no

profession which considers itself above the law so

widely as the medical profession.

The Health MasterCh. 

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not

involve giving pain.

The Health MasterCh. 

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for

any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials,

who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who

diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never

seen, is a quack.

The Great American Fraudp. . Collier and Sons ()

Thomas Addis –

US physician, San Francisco

When the patient dies the kidneys may go to

the pathologist, but while he lives the urine

is ours. It can provide us day by day, month

by month, and year by year, with a serial

story of the major events going on within

the kidney.

Glomerular Nephritis, Diagnosis and Treatment Ch. 

A clinician is complex. He is part craftsman, part

practical scientist, and part historian.

Glomerular Nephritis, Diagnosis and TreatmentCh. 

Joseph Addison –

English literary figure

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the

Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

The SpectatorVol. III, No. , October ()

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each

other.

The SpectatorVol. V, No.  ()

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful

of all our senses.

The SpectatorVol. VNo.  ()

Francis Heed Adler –

US ophthalmologist and researcher, Philadelphia

The faculties developed by doing research are

those most needed in diagnosis.

Transactions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology

and Otolaryngology:  ()

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