S.Weir Mitchell –
American neurophysician and author
The success of a discovery depends upon the time
of its appearance.
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine: ()
Do not think of the dignity of your profession or
what it is beneath you to do.
Medical proverbs by F. H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober: –()
Ever since the Crimean War, nurses have been
getting into novels.
Medical proverbs by F. H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober: –()
I can remember when older physicians refused to
recognise socially a man who devoted himself to
the eye alone.
Medical proverbs by F. H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober: –()
The true rate of advance in medicine is not to be
tested by the work of single men, but by the
practical capacity of the mass.
Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober: –()
The true test of national medical progress is what
the country doctor is.
Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober: –()
The arctic loneliness of age.
Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York
Academy of MedicineOctober: –()
Moli`ere –
French dramatist
No matter what Aristotle and all philosophy may
say, there’s nothing like tobacco.
Don JuanAct I, Sc. i
The mind has great influence over the body, and
maladies often have their origin there.
Love’s the Best DoctorIII
Most men die of their remedies, and not of their
illnesses.
Le Malade imaginaireIII.
Henri de Mondeville –
French surgeon
Anyone who believes that anything can be suited
to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is
practised not on mankind in general, but on every
individual in particular.
Chirurgie
Keep up your patient’s spirits by music of viols and
ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters
describing the death of his enemies, or by telling
him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a
churchman.
Chirurgie
Since dim antiquity the people have believed
surgeons to be thieves, murderers and the worst
kind of tricksters.
Quoted by M-C. Pouchelle in Corps et chirurgie a l’apogee du
Moyen-Age. Flammarion, Paris ()
Surgery cures diseases that cannot be cured by
any other means, not by themselves, not by
nature, nor by medicine. Medicine indeed never
cures a disease so evidently that one could say
that the cure is due to medicine.
Treatise on SurgeryLady Mary Wortley Montagu
–
English writer and traveller and importer of smallpox
inoculation from the Middle East
The smallpox, so fatal and so general among us, is
here rendered entirely harmless by the invention of
ingrafting. They take the smallpox here by way of
diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
Letter from Adrianople 1 April (1717)Michel de Montaigne –
French Essayist and moralist
It is good to rub and polish our brains against that
of others.
EssaysBk (transl. D. M. Frame)
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot
matter. That consideration has nothing in
common with the functions of the friendship they
owe me.
EssaysBk l, Ch. ‘Of Friendship’
For the most violent diseases the most violent
remedies.
EssaysBk II, Ch. ‘A Custom of the Island of Cea’ (transl.
Donald M. Frame)
Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on
our faces.
EssaysBk III, Ch. ‘Of Physiognomy’
Our mind grows constipated and sluggish as it
grows old.
EssaysBk III, Ch. ‘Of Physiognomy’
If you do not know how to die, do not worry;
Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully
and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for
you; do not bother your head about it.
Essays Bk III, Ch. ‘Of Physiognomy’
Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of
nature, and as ready at hand as any.
EssaysBk III, Ch. ‘Of Experience’
Lawyers and physicians are a bad provision for a
country.
EssaysBk III, Ch. ‘Of Experience’
We are more sensible of one little touch of a
surgeon’s lancet than of twenty wounds with a
sword in the heat offight.
Attributed
Doctor cures, if the sun sees it; but if he kills, the
earth hides it.
FlorioII.xxxvii, . ·