Eric Hodgins –
US writer and editor
A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the
label says it will do.
Episode
Stanley O. Hoerr –
It is difficult to make the asymptomatic patient feel
better.
American Journal of Surgery: ()
The surgeon is a man of action. By temperament
and by training he prefers to serve the sick by
operating on them, and he inwardly commiserates
with a patient so unfortunate as to have a disease
not suited to surgical treatment.
American Journal of Surgery: ()
Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein
–
Lithuanian-born US humorous poet and writer
Babies haven’t any hair:
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
From the cradle to the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave.
Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing‘Songs of Faith in the
Year after Next’ ()
Friederich Hoffman –
German physician
Many severe diseases result from a hereditary
disposition.
Fundamenta medicinae()
Any climate and any age, and each sex, has its
special diseases.
Fundamenta medicinae()
Oliver Wendell Holmes –
US humorist and physician
The truth is, that medicine, professedly found on
observation, is as sensitive to outside influences,
political, religious, philosophical, imaginative, as
is the barometer to the changes of atmospheric
density.
Medical Essays‘Current and Counter-Currents in Medical
Science’
The solemn scepticism of science has replaced the
sneering doubts of witty philosophers.
Medical Essays‘Current and Counter-Currents in Medical
Science’
No families take so little medicine as those of
doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Medical Essays‘Current and Counter-Currents in Medical
Science’
Homeopathy...a mingled mass of perverse
ingenuity, of tinsel erudition, of imbecile credulity,
and artful misrepresentation.
Medical Essays‘Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions’
So long as the body is affected through the mind,
no audacious device, even of the most manifestly
dishonest character, can fail of producing
occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or
even a partial faith.
Medical Essays‘Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions’
A man of very moderate ability may be a good
physician, if he devotes himself faithfully to
his work.
Medical Essays‘Scholastic and Bedside Teaching’
The most essential part of a student’s instruction
is obtained, as I believe, not in the lecture room,
but at the bedside.
Medical Essays‘Scholastic and Bedside Teaching’
I would never use a long word where a short one
would answer the purpose. I know there are
professors in this country who ‘ligate’ arteries.
Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the
bleeding just as well.
Medical Essays‘Scholastic and Bedside Teaching’
The best a physician can give is never too good for
the patient.
Medical Essays‘Scholastic and Bedside Teaching’
The bedside is always the true centre of medical
teaching.
Medical Essays‘Scholastic and Bedside Teaching’
Three natural anaesthetics... sleep, fainting,
death.
Medical Essays‘The Medical Profession in Massachussets’
What I call a good patient is one who, having
found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
Medical Essays‘The Young Practitioner’
Let me recommend you, as far as possible, to keep
your doubts to yourself, and give the patient the
benefit of your decision.
Medical Essays‘The Young Practitioner’The lawyers are the cleverest men, the ministers
are the most learned, and the doctors are the most
sensible.
The Poet at the Breakfast TableSect. VTruth is the breath of life to human society. It is
the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of
it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of
prussic acid.
Valedictory Address, Harvard Commencement, March
()To be seventy years young is sometimes far more
cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her th birthday, May
()Doctors are the best-natured people in the world,
except when they get fighting each other.
AttributedGod gave his creatures light and air and water
open to the skies;
Man locks him in a stifling lair and wonders why
his brother dies.
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