Giles Ménage –
French lexicographer
A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death’s
retaining fee.
MenagianaPt II
Menander –BC
Greek dramatist
Whom the gods love dies young.
Dis Exapaton
H. L. Mencken –
US journalist
Pathology would remain a lovely science, even if
there were no therapeutics, just as seismology is a
lovely science, though no one knows how to stop
earthquakes.
A Mencken ChrestomathyCh. XXX
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to
avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics,
though she is still forbidden to resort to physics
and chemistry.
NotebooksMinority Report
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.
PrejudicesTypes of Men
George Meredith –
English novelist and poet
Good wine lights the candelabra of the brain.
Attributed
Ilya Metchnikoff –
Russian biologist
Already it is complained that the burden of
supporting old people is too heavy, and statesmen
are perturbed by the enormous expense which will
be entailed by state support of the aged.
The Prolongation of LifePt , Ch. (ed. P. Chalmers Mitchell)
Alan Milburn –
British Secretary of State for Health ‒
Medicine is not a perfect science. Even the best
doctors can make the worst mistakes.
Hospital DoctorJuly ()
John Stuart Mill –
English philosopher and radical reformer
The fact itself of causing the existence of
a human being, is one of the most responsible
actions in the range of human life.
On Liberty
Perry H. Millard th century
US physician and vice-president of the American Medical
Association
Practically the only opposition to effective medical
legislation in the country comes from the
profession itself.
The propriety and necessity of state regulation of medical
practice. Journal of the American Medical Association:
()
C. Jeff Miller –
US gynaecologist
Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of
treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick
minds must be healed as well as sick bodies.
Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics: ()Spike Milligan –
British comedian and writer
Contraceptives should be used on every
conceivable occasion.
The Last Goon Show of AllJohn Milton –
English poet
Why, in truth, should I not bear gently the
deprivation of sight, then I may hope that it is not
so much lost as revoked and retracted inwards, for
the sharpening rather than the blunting of my
mental edge?
The Familiar LettersNo.
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be
incapable of enduring blindness.
Attributed
But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and
excessive, overturns all patience.
Attributed
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality
are used against melancholy, sour against sour,
salt to remove salt humours.
Samson AgonistesPreface
The fever is to the physicians, the eternal
reproach.
The Reason of Church GovernmentPreface‘Minerva’
Contemporary British medical columnist
A good physician appreciates the difference
between postponing death and prolonging the act
of dying.
British Medical JournalVol. , May ()George R. Minot –
US physician, haematologist, and Nobel laureate
To solve problems, an active, creative imagination
and scientific curiosity are the necessary tools.
Dictionary of Medical Eponyms, (nd edn), p. , Firkin
and Whitworth. The Parthenon ()John of Mirfield –
Librarian and doctor, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,
London
If there is any doubt as to whether a person is or is
not dead, apply lightly roasted onion to his
nostrils, and if he is alive, he will immediately
scratch his nose.
Breviarum Bartholomei‘De Signis Malis’ ·