Ralph Herman Major –
US medical historian
One day walking in the court of the Louvre he
(Laennec ‒) saw some children, who,
with their ears glued to the two ends of some long
pieces of wood ... he conceived instantly the
thought of applying this to the study of diseases of
the heart.
Quoted in Physical Diagnosisp. . W. B. Saunders,
Philadelphia () (relating the story of Laennec’s
discovery of the stethoscope)
J. D. Malcolm –
British surgeon and gynaecologist
Shock is more a part of the phenomena caused by
injury, whether surgical or otherwise, than a
complication thereof.
The Physiology of Death from Traumatic Feverp. .
Churchill, London ()
Nelson Mandela –
Freedom fighter and President of South Africa
The doctors and nurses treated me in a natural
way as though they had been dealing with
blacks on a basis of equality all their lives. It
reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was
the enemy of prejudice. These were men and
women of science, and science had no room for
racism.
The Long Walk to Freedomp. . Little, Brown and Co,
London ()
Gerald L. Mandell
Contemporary US professor of medicine
Infectious diseases traverse the usual boundaries
established by medical specialists. All organ
systems may be involved, and all physicians caring
for patients may have to deal with infected patients.
Principles and Practice of Infectious DiseasesPreface
Margurite Lucy Manfreda
Contemporary US commentator
People turn to God in times of crisis, an illness is
among those times when people feel the need for
spiritual guidance. Nurses, therefore, are in a
unique position to bring spiritual aid to their
patients and to the patients’ families.
In Spiritual Care: The Nurse’s RoleCh. , p. , by Sharon
Fish and Judith Allen Shelly. Intervarsity Press, Illinois,
USA ()
Marcus Manilius st century BC
Latin poet
We begin to die at birth; the end flows from the
beginning.
AstronomicaIV
Thomas Mann –
German novelist
All interest in disease and death is only another
expression of interest in life.
The Magic Mountain
Disease has nothing refined about it, nothing
dignified.
The Magic MountainCh. IV ‘Necessary purchases’
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than
his own.
The Magic MountainCh. VIPeter Marcello
Contemporary US surgeon, Tufts University School of
Medicine
We make all the calculations, the patient takes
the risks.
Colorectal symposium Florida, February ()Antoine B. J. Marfan –
French paediatrician, Paris
One rarely records pulmonary tuberculosis
in people who during their childhood had
been attacked by the disease and in whom
the lesions have healed before the age of
fifteen years.
Marfan’s Law of acquired immunity in tuberculosis.
Quoted in: Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn),
p. , Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon ()
Observe methodically and vigorously without
neglecting any exploratory procedure using all
that can be provided by physical examination,
chemical studies, bacteriological findings and
experiment, one must compare the facts observed
during life and the lesions revealed by autopsy.
Quoted in: Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn),
p. , Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon ()Don Marquis –
US writer and New York columnist
A suicide is a person who has considered his
own case and decided that he is worthless
and who acts as his own judge jury and
executioner and he probably knows better
than anyone else whether there is justice in
the verdict
the lives and times of archy and mehitabel: archy does his part,
‘now look at it’John Marston –
English dramatist and satirist
A pitiful surgeon makes a dangerous sore.
The MalcontentAct IV, Sc. ii ()Marcus Valerius Martialis Martial
c. AD–
Spanish-born Latin poet and epigrammist
Life is not living, but living in health.
EpigramsVI. (transl. W. C. Ker, )
The mode of death is sadder than death itself.
EpigramsXI.
Accept this saddle for thy hunting nag,
For riding bare-back causes nasty piles.
EpigramsXIV. ·