Richard Asher –
British physician and writer
Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed
as a housewife puts all her plates back in the
plate-rack – to make a generally tidy appearance.
British Medical Journal:()
Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.
Lancet:()
For many doctors the achievement of a published
article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a
necessary hurdle in a medical career.
British Medical Journal:()
The modern haematologist, instead of describing
in English what he can see, prefers to describe in
Greek what he can’t.
British Medical Journal:()
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because
they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms
they develop an expression of refinement and
sympathy.
A Sense of Asherp. . Pitman Medical, UK ()
It is not always worth the discomforts of major
surgery to get minor recovery.
A Sense of Asherp. . Pitman Medical, UK ()
The only similarity between the car and the
human body is that if something is seriously
wrong with the design of the former you can send
it back to its maker.
A Sense of Asherp. . Pitman Medical, UK ()
Isaac Asimov –
US science fiction writer
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live,
I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Life()
Dana W. Atchley –?
US physician
The principles of medical management are
essentially the same for individuals of all ages,
albeit the same problem is handled differently in
different patients.
Attributed
W. H. Auden –
English poet
A professor is one who talks in someone else’s
sleep.
Attributed
Leopold Auenbrugger –
Austrian physician and discoverer of the percussion of the
thorax
I here present the reader with a new sign which I
have discovered for detecting diseases of the chest.
This consists in percussion of the human thorax,
whereby, according to the character of the
particular sounds then elicited, an opinion is
formed of the internal state of that cavity.
New Invention by Means of Percussing the Human Thorax for
Detecting Signs of Obscure Disease of the Interior of the Chest
(Inventum novum ex percussione), December ()
St. Augustine ad–
Bishop of Hippo, early Christian Theologian
The greatest evil is physical pain.
SoliloquiesI.Marcus Aurelius ad–
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more
untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Meditations
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering
of the mind.
MeditationsIV.
Death is a release from the impressions of sense,
and from impulses that make us their puppets,
from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard
service of the flesh.
MeditationsVI.Jane Austen –
English novelist
My sore throats, you know, are always worse than
anybody’s.
PersuasionCh. l()Avicenna –
Persian physician, Baghdad school
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same
as those of smallpox, but nausea and
inflammation is more severe, though the pains in
the back are less.
The CanonBk IV
The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
The Canon Bk IV
Leeches should be kept a day before applying
them. They should be squeezed to make them eject
the contents of their stomachs.
The Canon Bk IVWashington Ayer
th century US Surgeon
Here the most sublime scene ever witnessed
in the operating room was presented when
the patient placed himself voluntarily upon
the table, which was to become the altar of
future fame.
Description of the first public demonstration of ether at the
Massachussetts General Hospital, October
The heroic bravery of the man who voluntarily
placed himself upon the table, a subject for the
surgeon’s knife, should be recorded and his name
enrolled upon parchment, which should be hung
upon the walls of the surgical amphitheatre in
which the operation was performed. His name was
Gilbert Abbott.
Description of the first public demonstration of ether at the
Massachussetts General Hospital, October ·