African proverbs
Filthy water cannot be washed.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had
better be too smart to get ill.
Transvaal
If you intend to give a sick man medicine, let him
get very ill first, so that he may see the benefit of
your medicine.
Nupe
In the midst of your illness you will promise a
goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will
seem sufficient.
Jukun
Loss of teeth and marriage spoil a woman’s
beauty.
Poison should be tried out on a frog.
Bantu
Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the
sick.
Bantu
Fuller Albright –
US professor of medicine, Harvard
As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor
doctor, doctors are either good or bad.
Textbook of Medicine
Any theory is better than no theory.
Textbook of Medicine
Alexander (III) the Great of
Macedon –bc
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Comment on his deathbed
Alexander of Tralles ad–
Greek physician
The physician should look upon the patient as a
besieged city and try to rescue him with every
means that art and science place at his command.
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt –
English physician, historian, Professor of Medicine,
Cambridge, and inventor of the short thermometer
Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries
of Pasteur. He saw it because he was watching on
the heights, and he was watching there alone.
Attributed
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of
illusions which consists on the one hand of
believing what we see, and on the other in seeing
what we believe.
Attributed
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without,
but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws
of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of
human nature, as to his disillusion many a
lawgiver has discovered.
Attributed
We are led to think of diseases as
isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not
as the phases of certain periods of bodily
development.
Attributed
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion
but in the secrecy of the bedchamber; and
perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget
the delicacies and sincerities which under
these conditions are essential to harmony
and honour.
On Professional Education with Special Reference to MedicineWoody Allen –
US comedian and film director
I am not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there
when it happens.
Deathp. ()American proverbs
Everybody loves a fat man.
It will never get well if you pick it.
Nobody loves a fat man.
The California climate makes the sick well and the
well sick, the old young and the young old.Henri Amiel –
Swiss writer and philosopher
Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness
gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Journal IntimeApril ()
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a
semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Journal IntimeDecember ()
To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed
with profound knowledge of life and of the soul,
intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of
whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere
presence.
Journal IntimeAugust ()
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself
to be in health.
Journal IntimeFebruary ()
To know how to grow old is the master-work of
wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in
the great art of living.
Journal IntimeSeptember ()John Allan Dalrymple Anderson
–
British pharmacologist
The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a
man’s stomach through which he crawls to escape
from his wife has fairly wide acceptance.
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