Charles Brook
UK surgeon
The good physician is a disciple of Paracelsus, who
was a sceptic, while the good surgeon is a disciple
of Galen, who was a good dogmatist.
Battling SurgeonCh. ()
Michael Brook
Contemporary British physician, London
When medicine is practised in the tropics, with
little or no aid from laboratory tests, clinical
acumen is the most important tool used in
arriving at the correct diagnosis.
Symptoms and Signs in Tropical Medicine In: Manson’s
Tropical Diseases(th edn), G. C. Cook (ed.).
W. B. Saunders ()
François Joseph Victor Broussais
‒
Paris physician and protagonist of the erroneous
‘physiological medicine’
There is no essential distinction between one
malady and another. What determines the
difference between particular diseases is nothing but
the degree of excitation, stimulation or irritation.
The Great Doctors—A Biographical History of Medicine
p. , Henry E. Sigerist. W. W. Norton & Co. Ltd ()
There are no such diseases. They are but the
products of a disordered imagination.
The Great Doctors—A Biographical History of Medicine
p. , Henry E. Sigerist. W. W. Norton & Co. Ltd () (in
response to the Ontologists, e.g. Pinel who were busy
classifying diseases)
J. Howard Brown ‒?
US haematologist
A man may do research for the fun of doing it but
he can not expect to be supported for the fun of
doing it.
Journal of Bacteriology: ()
John Brown ‒
Edinburgh physician and author
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living,
palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
Lancet: ()
Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are
in a foreign language.
Horae SubsecivaeSeries I, Introduction
Science and Art are the offspring of light and
truth, of intelligence and will; they are the parents
of philosophy—that its father, this its mother.
Attributed
Sir Dennis Browne ‒
Paediatric surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital,
London
The one eternal jibe at our profession is that it
ignores any advance originating outside its own
members.
Quoted with reference to osteopathy by Reginald Pound in
Harley Street, Michael Joseph, London ()
Sir Thomas Browne ‒
English physician, writer and rhetorician
For the world, I count it not an inn, but an
hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
Religio Mediciii, Sect. ()
We all labour against our own cure, for death is
the cure of all diseases.
Religio Mediciii, Sect. ()
With what shift and pains we come into the World
we remember not; but ‘tis commonly found no
easy matter to get out of it.
Christian MoralsPt II, Sect.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but
only the stroke of death.
An Essay on Death
The ancient Inhabitants of this Island were less
troubled with Coughs when they went naked, and
slept in Caves and Woods, than Men now in
Chambers and Feather beds.
Letter to a friend
The common fallacy of consumptive Persons, who
feel not themselves dying, and therefore still hope
to live.
Letter to a friend
No one should approach the temple of science
with the soul of a money changer.
AttributedPhilip A. Bruce ‒
US physician
Drinking was much more general than card
playing, since it required no previous scientific
training for its indulgence.
History of the University of VirginiaVol. II, Ch. Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ‒
Austrian physiologist
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can
live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in
public.
Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital: ()Jean de La Bruyère ‒
French author
There are but three events which concern man:
birth, life and death. They are unconscious of
their birth, they suffer when they die, and they
neglect to live.
Characters‘Of Mankind’ (transl. Henri van Laun) ()
A long illness seems to be placed between life and
death, in order to make death a comfort both to
those who die and to those who remain.
Characters‘Of Mankind’ (transl. Henri van Laun) ()
Ch. XI
Those who are well get sick; they need people
whose business it is to assure them they will not
die: as long as men go on dying, and love living,
the doctor will be made game of and well paid.
Characters‘Of Mankind’ (transl. Henri van Laun) ()
Ch. XIV ·