W. I. B. Beveridge –
Professor of veterinary science
People whose minds are not disciplined by training
often tend to notice and remember events that
support their views and forget others.
The Art of Scientific InvestigationsPreface
Probably the majority of discoveries in biology and
medicine have been come upon unexpectedly, or at
least had an element of chance in them, especially
the most important and revolutionary ones.
The Art of Scientific InvestigationCh. III
There is an interesting saying that no one believes
an hypothesis except its originator but everyone
believes an experiment except the experimenter.
The Art of Scientific InvestigationCh. V
He is a bold man who submits his paper for
publication without it having first been put under
the microscope of friendly criticism by colleagues.
The Art of Scientific InvestigationCh. IX
Gareth Beynon –
British physician
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and
advertise.
Quoted in Consultant Care(), BUPA communications
about private practice
The Bible
The eye is not satisfied with seeing.
Ecclesiasticus:
Be not slow to visit the sick: for that shall make
thee to be beloved.
Ecclesiasticus:
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth;
and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Ecclesiasticus:
Honour a physician with the honour due unto him
for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord
hath created him. For of the most High cometh
healing, and he shall receive honour of the king.
Ecclesiasticus: –
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the seas, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis:
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou
shalt bring forth children.
Genesis:
Man’s days shall be to one hundred and twenty
years.
Genesis:
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners
before the Lord exceedingly.
Genesis:
Ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Genesis:
Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he
could not see.
Genesis:
Give me children or else I die. (Rachel)
Genesis:
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
Isaiah:
We have made a covenant with death.
Isaiah:
The prayer of faith shall save the sick.
James:
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow,
because her hour is come: but as soon as she is
delivered of the child, she remembereth no more
the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the
world.
John:
But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
reason of his age.
Kings:
The leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall
be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a
covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry,
Unclean, unclean.
Leviticus: Physician, heal thyself.
Luke:
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Matthew: and Luke: The light of the body is the eye.
Matthew:
They that be whole need not a physician, but they
that are sick.
Matthew: And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into
the ditch.
Matthew:
The glory of young men is their strength.
Proverbs: The wringing of the nose shall bring forth blood.
Proverbs:
Bodily exercise profiteth little.
Timothy: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy
stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Timothy: Xavier Bichat –
French surgeon, Paris
Life is the sum of the functions that resist death.
Attributed
We cannot therefore deny that a change in just
one of an organ’s tissues is frequently enough to
disturb the functions in all the others; yet likewise,
it is in only one of them that the evil originates.
Attributed. . . ·