Middle age has been said to be the time of a man’s
life when, if he has two choices for an evening, he
takes the one that gets him home earlier.
Journal of the American Medical Association:()
Asaph ben Barachiah 6th century
The humour and illnesses are already on the
sperm and are transmitted to the embryo.
Attributed
Sam Bardell –
Psychiatrist: A man who asks you a lot of
expensive questions your wife asks you for nothing.
Attributed
Christian Barnard –
Pioneer South African heart surgeon
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to
prolong life. And if your treatment does not
alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that
treatment should be stopped.
Attributed
Norman Barrett –?
UK surgeon, St. Thomas’s Hospital, London
It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is
so much to be learned about pain.
Quoted in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine:
()
Sir James Matthew Barrie –
British playwright
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the
laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all
went skipping about, and that was the beginning
of fairies.
Peter PanAct ()
The scientific man is the only person who has
anything new to say and who does not know how
to say it.
Attributed
John Barrymore –
US actor
He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living
frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded
by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
The StageJanuary () (J. P. McEvoy)
Elisha Bartlett –
US professor of medicine, editor and educator
Certainly it is by their signs and symptoms, that
internal diseases are revealed to the physician.
Philosophy of Medical SciencePt II, Ch.
Bernard Baruch –
US financier
There are no such things as incurable, there are
only things for which man has not found a cure.
Quoted by his son, Simon Baruch, the surgeon, in a
speech, April ()
Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (‘Peter
Harding’) –
After all we are merely the servants of the public,
in spite of our M.D.’s and our hospital
appointments.
The Corner of Harley StreetCh.
General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be
carried on well and successfully, as any special
practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P.
has to live continually, as it were, with the results
of his handiwork.
The Corner of Harley StreetCh.
If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and
promptly.
The Corner of Harley Street Ch. St. Basil the Great c.–
Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction
of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
HomiliesNo. XIV, Ch. Charles Baudelaire –
French poet
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
Journaux intimes() Richard Baxter –
English non-conformist divine
An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotting member is a gain.
Poetical Fragments‘Man’Sir William Maddock Bayliss
–
British physiologist
The greatness of a scientific investigator does not
rest on the fact of his having never made a
mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that
he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is
cogent enough.
Principles of General Physiology, PrefaceWilliam B. Bean –
US physician
The so-called medical literature is stuffed to
bursting with junk, written in a hopscotch style
characterised by a Brownian movement of
uncontrolled parts of speech which seethe in
restless unintelligibility.
Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine:()G. H. Beaton
Contemporary US professor of nutrition
The interactions of man with his environment are
so complex that only an ecological approach to
nutrition permits an understanding of the whole
spectrum of factors determining the nutritional
problems that exist in human societies.
Nutrition in Preventive Medicinep. . WHO () . ·..