Arabic proverbs continued
For most diagnoses all that is needed is an ounce
of knowledge, an ounce of intelligence, and a
pound of thoroughness.
Exercise is good for your health, but like
everything else it can be overdone.
Shape Magazine, USA
When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.
John Arbuthnot –
Scottish physician and satirist
The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them
airy and well perflated; Infectious Distempers must
necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind
living close together.
An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies
Ch. , No.
Aretaeus of Cappadocia ad–
Greek physician
This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the
lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous,
the patients do not despair of themselves, even
although near the last.
On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute DiseasesII.ii.(on
Tuberculosis)
When he can render no further aid, the physician
alone can mourn as a man with his incurable
patient. This is the physician’s sad lot.
Attributed
In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries
the body...For the thirst there is need of a
powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all
sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates
the discharge of urine.
Therapeutics of chronic diseasesII, Ch. II, –
Aristophanes –bc
Greek philosopher and playwright
Old age is but a second childhood.
Clouds() (transl. Thomas Mitchell)
Aristotle ‒bc
Greek phliosopher
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in
another physician, knowing that he cannot
reason correctly if required to judge his own
condition while suffering.
De Republicaiii.
Nature does nothing without a purpose.
In children may be observed the traces and seeds
of what will one day be settled psychological
habits, though psychologically a child hardly
differs for the time being from an animal.
Historia AnimaliumVIII.(transl. D. W. Thompson)
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless
to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to
determine the exact line of demarcation, nor on
which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
Historia AnimaliumVIII.I
While it is true that the suicide braves death, he does
it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Nicomachean Ethics
It is no part of a physician’s business to use either
persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
PoliticsVII.ii
The body is most fully developed from thirty to
thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
RhetoricII.xiv
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it
is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the
management of the household as well as for
liberal studies.
EconomicsI
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes
of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists
go back to medicine for their first principles.
Attributed
Speeches are like babies—easy to conceive but
hard to deliver.
Attributed
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits
contribute to health, wealth and wisdom.
AttributedJohn Armstrong –
English physician and poet
For want of timely care
Millions have died of medicable wounds.
Art of Preserving Health
Many more Englishmen die by the lancet at home,
than by the sword abroad.
AttributedMatthew Arnold –
British poet and critic
Nor bring to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name.
New Poems‘A Wish’Ar-Rumi –
The blunders of a doctor are felt not by himself
but by others.
AttributedAntonin Artaud –
French actor and producer
I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in
the morning made me want to hang myself
because I knew I could not strangle him.
AttributedAsclepiades st century bc
Greek-born Roman physician
To cure safely, swiftly and pleasantly.
Attributed
A man is a poor physician who has not two or three
remedies ready for use in every case of illness.
Attributed ·