Sir Reginald Watson-Jones –
British orthopaedic surgeon
It is worse to sprain an ankle than to break it.
Quoted in Watson-Jones’ Fractures and Joint Injuriesp.
(ed. J. N. Wilson)
Evelyn Waugh –
British satirist and novelist
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical
pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
Vile Bodies()
Warren Weaver –
Director, Rockefeller Foundation, New York
And gradually there is coming into being a new
branch of science—molecular biology—which is
beginning to uncover many secrets concerning
the ultimate units of the living cell.
The Natural Sciences()
Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson –
British surgeon
The well equipped clinician must possess the
qualities of the artist, the man of science, and the
humanist, but he must exercise them only in so
far as they subserve the getting well of the
individual patient.
Medical Press: ()
Lord Robert Webb-Johnstone –?
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the
air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a
psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Collected Papers
John Webster –
English dramatist
Death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.
The Duchess of MalfiAct IV, Sc. ii
Physicians are like kings, they brook no
contradiction.
The Duchess of MalfiAct IV, Sc. ii
Jerome Pierce Webster –?
US plastic surgeon
The plastic surgeon works with living flesh as his
clay, and his work of art is the attempted
achievement of normalcy in appearance and
function.
Foreword to The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery
Otto Weininger –
With the woman, thinking and feeling are
identical, for man they are in opposition.
Sex and CharacterPt II, Ch.
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire
for immortality, but the desire for immortality
which causes the fear of death.
Sex and CharacterPt II, Ch.
Soma Weiss –
Hungarian-born US physician, BostonA diagnosis is easy as long as you think of it.
Quoted in Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn), p. .
Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon, Lancashire, UK
()William H.Welch –
US professor of pathology
Medical education is not completed at the medical
school: it is only begun.
Bulletin of the Harvard Medical School Association: ()
Cleanliness and comfort demand that means shall
be taken to render pure the ground on which we
live, the air which we breathe, and the water and
food with which we are supplied, and we must
meet these needs without waiting to learn just
what relation infectious agents bear to the earth,
air, water and food.
Maryland Medical Journal: ()The main cause of this unparalleled progress in
physiology, pathology, medicine and surgery has
been the fruitful application of the experimental
method of research.
Speaking against the Antivivisection Bill in the US Senate
February ()H. Gideon Wells –
US biochemistMaternity is a matter of fact—paternity is a
matter of speculation.
AttributedWelsh proverbs
Disease and sleep keep far apart.
Heaven defend me from a busy doctor.
Thin women live long.Three things give hardy strength; sleeping on
hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating
dry food.Karl Frederik Wenckebach –
Dutch-born professor of medicine, ViennaI owe my reputation to the fact that I use digitalis
in doses the text books say are dangerous and in
cases that the text books say are unsuitable.
Lancet: ()Timberlake Wertenberger
Contemporay US playwrightIt is possible that human beings have come to the
end of their evolution, but we will never come to
the end of our imagination.
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