George W. Bush ‒
President of the USA
Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as
we used to know them.
Quoted October
Nicholas Murray Butler ‒
US professor of philosophy
An expert is one who knows more and more about
less and less.
Commencement Address, Columbia University
Samuel Butler ‒
British writer
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to
have children.
Notebooks ()
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Notebooks() Ch. , ‘Life’
Death in anything like luxury is one of the most
expensive things a man can indulge himself in. It
costs a lot of money to die comfortably, unless one
goes off pretty quickly.
Notebooks() Ch. II, ‘A Luxurious Death’
A physician’s physiology has much the same
relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s
divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Notebooks() Ch. XIV
The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows
and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
Notebooks() Ch. XIV
The more a thing knows its own mind, the more
living it becomes.
Notebooks() Ch. XIV
I reckon being ill as one of the greatest pleasures
of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged
to work until one is better.
The Way All Fresh() Ch.
George Gordon Lord Byron
‒
English poet
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Child Harold’s PilgrimageCanto III, Stanza
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.
Don JuanCanto , Stanza
Pierre Cabanis ‒
French physician and philosopher
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter
into activity, just as food falling into the stomach
excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric
juice.
Traité du physique et du moral de l’homme, Second Mémoir
()
Richard Clarke Cabot ‒
US physician and sociologist
Ethics and Science need to shake hands.
The Meaning of Right and Wrong, Introduction
There are two kinds of appendicitis – acute
appendicitis and appendicitis for revenue only.
Clinical pathological conference discussion (c. )
As I look over twenty five years of medical work, I
can remember but two patients whose lives I
saved.
Rewards and Training of a PhysicianWilliam Cadogan ‒
English physician
The gout is so common a disease, that there is
scarcely a man in the world, whether he has
had it or not, but thinks he knows perfectly
what it is.
A Dissertation on the Gout, and All Chronic Diseases, Jointly
Considered
Children, in general, are overclothed and
overfed. To these causes, I impute most of
their diseases.
Essays upon Nursing and Management of ChildrenJohn Caffey ‒
Professor of Radiology, New York
Shadows are but dark holes in radiant streams
twisted rifts beyond the substance, meaningless in
themselves. He who would comprehend Röntgen’s
pallid shades, needs always to know well the solid
matrix whence they spring.
Introduction to Paediatric RadiologySir Hugh Cairns ‒
Australian-born British neurosurgeon and Professor of
Surgery, Oxford, UK
...a good doctor is one who is shrewd in diagnosis
and wise treatment; but, more than that, he is a
person who never spares himself in the interest of
his patients...
Lancet: ()Joseph A. Califano Jr
US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare –
The physician is the central decision maker for
more than % of health care services.
Governing AmericaSimon and Schuster, New York ()James S. Calnan ‒
British plastic surgeon, London
Since nearly every surgical operation begins
with an incision in the skin and ends with
closure of the wound, knowledge of the
healing of skin wounds is of fundamental
importance.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery: () . · .