Charles, Prince of Wales –
First in line to British throne
I believe it is most certainly possible to design
features in such buildings that are positively
healing... The spirit needs healing as well
as the body.
BBC Television Documentary ()
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is
like the celebrated tower of Pisa—slightly off
balance.
Attributed
Is the whole of the health care system—and the
confidence of the public in it—not undermined by
the publicity given to what goes wrong rather
than the tiny miracles wrought day in day out by
an expert, kind and dedicated staff?
Speech to newspaper editors and proprietors in Fleet Street,
March ()
Guy de Chauliac –
French surgeon
The conditions necessary for the surgeon are four:
first, he should be learned: second, he should be
expert: third, he must be ingenious, and fourth, he
should be able to adapt himself.
Ars ChururgicIntroduction
A blind man works on wood the same way as a
surgeon on the body, when he is ignorant of
anatomy.
Chirurgia Magna, Treatise, Doctrine , Ch.
Anton Chekhov –
Russian dramatist and doctor
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease,
that means it cannot be cured.
The Cherry OrchardII
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only
difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you, too.
Ivanov
I realise I have two professions, not one. Medicine
is my lawful wife and literature my mistress.
When I grow weary of one, I pass the night with
the other. Neither of them suffers because of my
infidelity.
Letter, October ()
Chen Jen
Chinese sage
When you treat a disease, first treat the mind.
Earl of Chesterfield –
English statesman
Advice is seldom welcome; and those that want it
the most always like it the least.
Letter to his son, January ()
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous
and the expense damnable.
Nature : ()
G. K. Chesterton –
British writer
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Attributed
It seems a pity that psychology should have
destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
ObserverDecember ()
Drink because you are happy, but never because
you are miserable.
AttributedSir Watson Cheyne –
Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, King’s College, London,
scientist and assistant to Joseph Lister
The human form is a very delicate organization. It
is not a thing which should be meddled with by
people who do not know it as intimately as it is
possible to know it.
Quoted with reference to a quack bone setter in Harley
Streetp. Reginald Pound. Michael Joseph, London
()Chinese proverbs
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty,
diseases seek men.
Before you tell the ‘truth’ to the patient, be sure
you know the ‘truth’ and that the patient wants to
hear it.
For colic, get the bowels open.
He that takes medicine and neglects to diet himself
wastes the skill of the physician.
However strong a mother may be, she becomes
afraid when she is pregnant for the third time.
If a child is constantly sick, it is due to
overfeeding.
In typhoid treat the beginning; in consumption do
not treat the end.
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard
to get one single remedy.Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
Nine out of every ten men have piles.No man is a good doctor who has never been sick
himself.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name
for himself and at the same time give benefit to
others.
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow;
its disappearance slow, like a thread.
The body may be healed but not the mind.
The patient has two sleeves, one containing a
diagnostic and the other a therapeutic
armamentarium; these sleeves should rarely be
emptied in one move; keep some techniques in
reserve; time your manoeuvres to best serve the
status and special needs of your patient. , ·
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