Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
–
US writer on social and economic subjects
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief,
pain, misfortune, or ‘broken heart’, is excuse for
cutting off one’s life while any power of service
remains. But when all usefulness is over, when
one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent
death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose
a quick and easy death in place of a slow and
horrible one.
Note written before her suicide, August ()
Daniel Coit Gilman –
US educator
The medical student is likely to be one son of the
family too weak to labour on the farm, too
indolent to do any exercise, too stupid for the bar
and too immoral for the pulpit.
Attributed
Thomas Gisborne –
English cleric and author
There have been physicians, the disgrace of their
profession, who seem to have considered
themselves, in studying Medicine, as studying not
a liberal science, but a mere art for the acquisition
of money; and have thence been solicitous to
acquire an insight rather into the humours than
into the diseases of mankind.
The Duties of Physicians
It is frequently of much importance, not to the
comfort only, but to the recovery of the patient,
that he should be enabled to look upon his
physician as his friend.
The Duties of Physicians
William E. Gladstone –
British statesman
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the
practice of all the physicians of all the countries of
the world.
Speech, Plumstead, UK ()
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
–
German poet and scientist
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen,
that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann
March ().
I have learned much from disease which life could
have never taught me anywhere else.
Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann
March ()
Thus I saw that most men only care for science so
far as they get a living by it, and that they worship
even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Conversations with Goethe October ()
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in
action.
Maxims and ReflectionsI
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he
usually discovers that he is ill.
Sprüche in ProsaPt , Bk II
Medicine absorbs the physician’s whole being
because it is concerned with the entire human
organism.
Attributed
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to
endure it.
Attributed
Science and art belong to the whole world, and
the barriers of nationality vanish before them.
AttributedOliver St. John Gogarty –
Irish politician and author
The Englishman believes that a purgative can
fatten or make him thin; he believes that either
there is only one kind of ache or that one
medicine can cure various kinds.
As I Was Going Down Sackville StreetCh. III ()Oliver Goldsmith –
Irish-born writer
I am told he makes a very handsome corpse, and
becomes his coffin prodigiously.
The Good Natured Man Act I
But the skilful physician distinguishes the
symptoms, manures the sterility of nature, or
prunes her luxuriance; nor does he depend so
much on the efficacy of medicines as on their
proper application.
Letter to Revd Thomas Contarine ()Samuel Goldwyn –
Polish-born US film producer
Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to
have his head examined.
AttributedEdward Goodman –?
It is a distinct art to talk medicine in the language
of the non-medical man.
AttributedMervyn H. Gordon –
English bacteriologist, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,
London
The object of research is the advancement not of
the investigator, but of knowledge.
AttributedJohannes De Gorter –
Medicine discusses diseases which are so rare that
one does not encounter them more than once or
twice during a lifetime with a thoroughness as if
the salvation of the art would depend on it.
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