Hope is the physician of each misery.
The silliest charm gives more comfort to
thousands in sorrow and pain
Than they will ever get from the knowledge that
proves it foolish and vain.
What butter and whiskey will not cure, there is no
cure for.
St. Isidore of Seville –
Spanish ecclesiastic
The physician ought to know literature, to be able
to understand or to explain what he reads.
EtymologiaeIV
Italian proverbs
Bed is a medicine.
Health without wealth is half a sickness.
If the patient dies, it is the doctor who has killed
him, and if he gets well, it is the saints who have
cured him.
When children are little they make our heads
ache; when grown, our hearts.
With respect to the gout, the physician is but a lout.
Chevalier Jackson –
US laryngologist
All that wheezes is not asthma.
Boston Medical Quarterly: ()
In teaching the medical student the primary
requisite is to keep him awake.
The Life of Chevalier JacksonCh. ()
Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson –
US Statesman
I like liquor – its taste and its effects – and that is
just the reason why I never drink it.
Quoted by William Jones in The Life and Letters of Robert
Edward Lee, Soldier and Manp.
Mary Corinna Puttnam Jacobi
–
US physician and social reformer, New York
Nature does not kill and does not heal. If there
were consciousness in Nature, she would feel
indifferent about what she is, viz., mere evolution.
Medical Proverbs by F. H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober, –()
The magnetic needle of professional rectitude
should, in spite of occasional deviations, always
point in the direction of pity and humanity.
Medical Proverbs by F. H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober, –()
Werner Jaeger –
German classical scholar
In classical times, more than at any other period
until a few decades ago, the doctor was more
concerned with healthy people than with invalids.
PaideaVol. IIIJames I –
King of England and Scotland
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the
nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.
A Counterblast to TobaccoWilliam James –
US psychologist
I take it that no man is educated who has never
dallied with the thought of suicide.
AttributedPierre Marie Janet –
French professor of psychology, Sorbonne, Paris
If a patient is poor he is committed to a public
hospital as ‘psychotic’; if he can afford the luxury
of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the
diagnosis of‘neuroasthenia’; if he is wealthy
enough to be isolated in his own home under
constant watch of nurses and physicians he is
simply an indisposed ‘eccentric’.
Strength and Psychological Debility(La Force et la faibless
psychologiques)Japanese proverbs
Better go without medicine than call in an
unskilful physician.
Diseases enter by the mouth.
Every man carries a parasite somewhere.
First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a
drink, then the drink takes the man.
Good medicine always has a bitter taste.Randall Jarrell –
US author
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to
a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to
be a child.
Third book of CriticismDeForest Clinton Jarvis –?
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to
just get them over a sickness.
Atlantic MonthlyJune ()Karl Jaspers –
German philosopher
The anxiety affects the body. In spite of increasing
longevity, the growing feeling of insecurity is
unmistakable.
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