Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

John Lyly –

English dramatist and novelist

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger
than ever.
Euphues

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
Euphues

Douglas MacArthur –

US military commander

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies
which slowly bring us down to the ground and
turn us to dust before we die.
Attributed

Thomas Babington, 1st Baron

Macaulay –

Scottish author and historian

Of all people children are the most imaginative.
Attributed

John L. McClenahan –

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be
cured by his own placebos.
Aphorism

Sir William MacCormac ?–

British military surgeon

A man wounded in the abdomen dies if he is
operated on and remains alive if he is left in peace.
Comment made during the Boer War (–)
observing high death rates after surgery

Thomas McCrae –

More is missed by not looking than by not knowing.
Aphorism

Benjamin McCready th Century

New York physician

The population of the United States is beyond that
of other countries, an anxious one. All classes are
either striving after wealth, or endeavouring to
keep up appearances.
On the influence of trades, professions and occupations in
the United States in the production of disease. Transactions
of the Medical Society of the State of New York: –
(–)

One great source of ill-health among labourers
and their families, is the confined and miserable
appartments in which they are lodged.
Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York:
–(–)

Edwin Carleton MacDowell –?

Heredity sets limits, environment decides the exact
position within these limits.
Attributed

Ephraim McDowell –

US surgeon, Kentucky

I made an incision about three inches from the

musculus rectus abdominis, on the left side,

continuing the same nine inches in length,

parallel with the fibres of the above-named

muscle, extending into the cavity of the

abdomen.

Eclectic Repertory or Analytical ReviewVol. VIII ()

description of the world’s first three laparotomies or

ovariotomies

Sir William Macewen –

Professor of Surgery, Glasgow

John Hunter never had more than 20 students at

his lectures, and at the beginning, when a solitary

student presented himself, he had to ask the

attendant to bring in the skeleton, so that he

might address them as ‘Gentlemen’.

Address to the British Medical Association ()

Bernard MacFadden –

If you feed a cold, as is often done, you frequently

have to starve a fever.

Physical CultureFebruary ()

Malcolm McFarlane –

English physician

How many of our continental colleagues can we

say truly envy the system we work in? About as

many as lust after our beef?

British Medical Association News ReviewJuly () (a

reference to both the National Health Service and the

bovine spongiform encephalopathy crisis)

A. McGehee Harvey

US physician and educator

Each of us should strive to rise above the routines

of the daily ward round and to see in every patient

an opportunity not only to serve mankind in the

best tradition of medical excellence, but to add to

the store of medical knowledge.

Phar. Alpha Omega Alpha: ()

Ernst Mach –

Austrian physicist and philosopher

The aim of research is the discovery of the

equations which subsist between the elements of

phenomena.

Popular Scientific Lectures

Des McHale

Contemporary Irish mathematician

The average human has one breast and one

testicle.

Attributed

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