Rohan Candappa ‒
London-born writer
Eat less fresh food.
Eat more things containing preservatives.
Preservatives are called preservatives because they
help you live longer.
The Little Book of Stress‘Diet Hard’ ()
A. Benson Cannon ‒
It is a good thing for a physician to have
prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first
makes him appear to know more than he does,
and the second gives him an expression of
concern which the patient interprets as being on
his behalf.
Attributed
Walter Bradford Cannon ‒
US physiologist
What the experimenter is really trying to do is to
learn whether facts can be established which will
be recognised as facts by others and which will
support some theory that in imagination he has
projected.
The Way of an Investigator‘Fitness for the Enterprise’
Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin)
‒
US strip cartoonist
Psychiatrists are often amusing company,
especially when they are drunk.
Tufts folia Medica: ()
Thomas Carlyle ‒
Scottish historian and philosopher
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of
disease.
Characteristics
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all
things.
Heroes and Hero-WorshipLect.
A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits;
though six men cannot hold him then.
Lecture in London, May, ()
A stammering man is never a worthless one.
Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of
sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature,
that makes him stammer.
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, November ()
Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)
‒
English author
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
Alice in WonderlandCh.
William H. Carruth ‒
US physicianSome call it Evolution
And others call it God.
Each in His Own TongueMalcolm Carruthers ‒
UK chemical pathologistIt is an ironic fact that while half the world’s
population is dying as a result of diseases
of poverty (largely starvation and infection)
the other half is succumbing to diseases of
affluence.
Introduction to The Western Way of Death. Davis Poynter,
London ()Alice Cary ‒
US poet and storytellerMy soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light.
Dying HymnWilliam B. Castle ‒?
US physician and teacherAn expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in
a confused way in such a fashion as to make you
think the confusion is your own fault.
Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin: ()Catalan proverb
From the bitterness of disease man learns the
sweetness of health.David W. Cathell ‒
US physicianIf, at your office and elsewhere, you make use of
instruments of precision they will not only assist
you in diagnosis but will also aid you greatly in
curing people by heightening their confidence in
you and enlisting their cooperation.
The Physician Himself and What He Should Add to the Strictly
ScientificBaltimore ()Conviviality has a levelling effect, and divests the
physician of his proper prestige.
The Physician Himself and What He Should Add to the Strictly
ScientificBaltimore ()A badly set limb or an unnecessary or bungled
amputation injures our whole profession.
And the limb or stump may be held up in court
in a suit for damages. Unless you are a fool,
Xray them all.
Book on the Physician HimselfPhiladelphia () · .