Sir James Bryce ‒
British liberal politician
Medicine is the only profession that labours
incessantly to destroy the reason for its own
existence.
Address, March ()
William Buchan ‒
Scottish physician and medical reformer
No discovery can be of general utility while the
practice of it is kept in the hands of a few.
Domestic Medicine(nd edn), p. . Philadephia ()
It appears from the annual register of the dead
that almost one half of the children born in Great
Britain die under twelve years of age.
Domestic Medicine(th edn) ()
Physicians should be consulted when needed, but
they should be needed very rarely.
Domestic Medicine(th edn), X, vii ()
Pearl Buck ‒
US novelist
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and
it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do,
but the danger is there, nevertheless.
The Child Who Never GrewCh.
Henry Thomas Buckle ‒
English historian
Among the arts, medicine, on account of its
eminent utility, must always hold the highest
place.
Miscellaneous and Posthumous WorksVol. II, Fragment
Henry Lytton Bulwer ‒
Diplomatist and author
A man’s ancestry is a positive property to him.
How much, not only of acres, but of his
constitution, his temper, his conduct, character
and nature he may inherit from some progenitor
ten times removed!
The CaxtonsPt XI, Ch. VII
There are two things in life that a sage must
preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his
stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils
admit of consolations, but there are no comforters
for dyspepsia and the toothache.
The CaxtonsPt XI, Ch. VII
Edward Bulwer-Lytton ‒
(‘Owen Meredith’)
English poet, diplomatist and statesman
In science, address the few, in literature, the many.
In science, the few must dictate opinion to the
many; in literature, the many, sooner or later,
force their judgment on the few.
Caxtoniana‘Readers and Writers’
There’s nothing certain in man’s life but this: That
he must lose it.
ClytemnestraPt XXJohn Bunyan ‒
English writer, non-conformist preacher, and philosopher
The captain of all these men of death that came
against him to take him away was the
consumption; for it was that brought him down to
the grave.
The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanAnthony Burgess ‒
British novelist
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and
guessing and pretending with them. They leave it
to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take
the credit. As well as very fat fees.
Nothing Like the Sun()Edmund Burke ‒
British politician
People will not look forward to posterity, who
never look backward to their ancestors.
Reflections on the Revolution in FranceDennis Burkitt ‒
Northern Irish surgeon and African missionary doctor
and nutritionist
Big stools, small hospitals,
Small stools, big hospitals.
AttributedRobert Burton ‒
English divine and author
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate
our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them
up like old apples, make them as so many
Anatomies.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent
Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their
Panaceas, potable gold, and Philosphers stones, a
sovereign remedy to all disease.
The Anatomy of MelancholyII, Sect. , Memb. , Subsect.
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover
and preserve which, we undergo any misery,
drink bitter potions, freely give our goods:
restore a man to his health, his purse lies open
to thee.
The Anatomy of MelancholyIII, Sect. If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a
melancholy man’s heart.
The Anatomy of MelancholyIII, Sect. In letting of blood, three main circumstances are
to be considered, who, how much, when?
The Anatomy of MelancholyIII, Sect. ·