Karl von Rokitansky –
Viennese pathologist
The axiom of medicine is that natural science is its
mother.
Handbook of Pathological Anatomy
Widespread experience in the field of pathological
anatomy must be the foundation, unless the
whole procedure is to eventuate in deception.
Handbuch der Pathologischen Anatomie()
Humphrey Rolleston –
British physician
Medicine is a noble profession but a damn bad
business.
Attributed
James Harvey Robinson –
US historian and educator
There are four historical layers underlying the
minds of civilized men—the animal mind, the
child mind, the savage mind, and the traditional
civilized mind.
The Mind in the MakingCh. III, Sect. ()
Jules Romains –
French writer
Every man who feels well is a sick man neglecting
himself.
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médicine.
Romanian proverb
If you wish to die soon, make your physician
your heir.
Franklin D. Roosevelt –
US President
Nothing can be more important to a State than its
public health; the State’s paramount concern
should be the health of its people.
Report of the Special Health Commission, transmitted to the
New York Legislature, February ()
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If
it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above
all, try something.
Address at Oglethorpe University, May ()
Eucharius Roslin –
German apothecary and obstretrician
When the birth cometh not naturally, then must
the midwife do all her diligence and pain to turn
the birth tenderly and with her annointed hands,
so that it may be reduced again to a natural birth.
The Birth of Mankind(transl. Thomas Raynalde) ()
As concerning the bringing up, nourishment and
giving of suckle to the child, it shall be best that
the mother give her child suck herself, for the
mother’s milk is more convenient and agreeable to
the infant than any other woman’s.
The Birth of Mankind(transl. Thomas Raynalde) ()
George G. Ross –
Any fool can cut off a leg—it takes a surgeon to
save one.
AttributedSir Ronald Ross –
British professor of tropical medicine and discoverer of
the cause of malaria
I was tired, and what was the use? I must have
examined the stomachs of a thousand mosquitoes
by this time. But the Angel of Fate fortunately laid
his hand on my head.
MemoirsCh. , words written on August ()Dante Gabriel Rossetti –
English poet and painter
My doctor’s issued his decree
That too much wine is killing me
And furthermore his ban he hurls
Against my touching naked girls.
How then? Must I no longer share
Good wine or beauties, dark and fair?
Doctor, goodbye, my sail’s unfurled,
I’m off to try the other world.
Quoted in Clinical Pharmacologyby D. R. Lawrence,
P. N. Bennett, and M. J. Brown. Churchill Livingstone,
Edinburgh ()Francis Peyton Rous –
US pathologist and virologist
Tumours destroy man in a unique and appalling
way, as flesh of his own flesh, which has somehow
been rendered proliferative, rampant, predatory
and ungovernable.
Quoted in Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn), p. ,
Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon, Lancashire ()Jean-Jacques Rousseau –
Geneva-born political philosopher and essayist
In regard to sickness, I shall not repeat the vain
and false declamations made against medicine by
most men in health.
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the
Inequality Among MankindPt ()
Teach him to live rather than avoid death: life is
not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our
mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which
makes us conscious of our being.
ÉmileBk ()Joseph Roux –
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those
that know.
Meditations of a Parish PriestCh. , No. LXXI (transl. Isabel
Hapgood)C.W. Rucker
Contemporary US ophthalmologist
The eye is a dark chamber, and its entrance, the
pupil, appears black because the eye’s dark purple
lining absorbs all of the light that reaches it.
A History of the Ophthalmoscope. Whiting, Rochester,
Minnesota () ·. .