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Kenneth T. Bird –
US physician
A medical chest specialist is long-winded about
the short-winded.
Familiar Medical QuotationsMaurice B. Strauss (ed.). Little,
Brown and Company, Boston ()
Prince Otto von Bismarck –
German statesman
You can do anything with children if you only
play with them.
Attributed
Give the worker the right to work as he is healthy,
look after him when he is ill, take care of him
when he is old.
Attributed
Sir William Blackstone ‒
English jurist
Mala praxisis a great misdemeanor and offence at
common law, whether it be for curiosity and
experiment, or by neglect; because it breaks the
trust which the party had placed in his physician,
and tends to the patient’s destruction.
Commentaries on the Laws of EnglandBk III, Ch. ()
William Blake ‒
Painter and poet
The eye altering alters all.
The Mental Traveller
Sir John Bland-Sutton ‒
President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
I divided my life into three parts: in the first I
learned my profession, in the second I taught it, in
the third I enjoy it.
The Story of a Surgeon
The most dangerous items in a surgical operation
were the instruments and the surgeon’s fingers.
Quoted in Harley Streetp., Reginald Pound: Michael
Joseph, London ()
Arthur L. Bloomfield ‒
US physician
There are some patients whom we cannot help;
there are none whom we cannot harm.
Familiar Medical QuotationsMaurice B. Strauss (ed.). Little,
Brown and Company, Boston ()
Giovanni Boccaccio ‒
Italian writer
To the cure of this disease, neither the knowledge of
medicine nor the power of drugs was of any effect,
whether because the disease was itself fatal or
because the physicians, whose number was
increased by quacks and woman pretenders, could
discover neither cause nor cure, and so few escaped.
Decamerondescribing the plague
Hermann Boerhaave ‒
Dutch physician and chemist
He that desires to learn truth should teach himself
by facts and experiments; by which means he will
learn more in a year than by abstract reasoning in
an age.
Academical Lectures on the Theory of PhysicVol. ()
A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor,
will be known only after death; and even then not
without an autopsy will you examine it with
exacting pains. But rare are those among the
extremely busy clinicians who are willing or
capable of doing this correctly.
Atrocis, nec Descipti Prius, Morbi Historiatransl. in Bulletin
of the Medical Library Association: ()
A good Doctor can foresee the fatal outcome
of an incurable illness, when he cannot help,
the experienced Doctor will take care not to
aggravate the sick person’s malady by tiring
and injurious efforts; and in an impossible case
he will not frustrate himself further with
ineffective solicitude.
Atrocis, nec Descipti Prius, Morbi Historiatransl. in Bulletin
of the Medical Library Association: ()
Keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels
open.
AttributedCurtis Bok ‒
US physician
We are convinced that the only genuine medical
insurance for this country lies in making the
benefits of science available to all practitioners
and to all patients.
Foreword to Medial Research, A Mid-century SurveyBook of Common Prayer
Man that is born of woman, hath but a short time
to live.
Burial of the Dead
From lightning and tempest; from plague,
pestilence and famine; from battle and murder,
and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
The LitanyAndrew Boorde ‒
English physician and Carthusian monk
It is extremely difficult for a physician who puts
too much trust in what he reads to form a proper
decision from what he sees.George Borrow ‒
English author
If you must commit suicide, always contrive
to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies,
whether of life or of death, should never be lost
sight of.
LavengroCh. XXIII