Chinese proverbs continued
The unlucky doctor treats the head of a disease;
the lucky doctor its tail.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be
certain is to be ridiculous.
When a disease relapses there is no cure.
Ch’in Yueh-jen c.BC
The skillful doctor treats those who are well but
the inferior doctor treats those who are ill.
Attributed
W. W. Chipman –
US physician
Parturition is a physiological process—the same in
the countess and in the cow.
Quoted in Familiar Medical QuotationsMaurice B. Strauss
(ed.). Little, Brown and Company, Boston ()
A. B. Christie –
British infectious disease physician
Man is a creature composed of countless millions
of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet
throughout the ages the two have been in
ceaseless conflict.
Infectious Disease, Epidemiology and Clinical Practicep. . The
Epidemiologist and the Clinician (th edn) ()
The history of epidemics is the history of wars
and wanderings, of famine and drought and of
man’s exposure to inhospitable surroundings.
When man has travelled rough, microorganisms
have always been ready to take advantage of his
discomfitures.
Infectious Disease, Epidemiology and Clinical Practicep. . The
Epidemiologist and the Clinician (th edn) ()
Christina of Sweden –
Queen of Sweden
We grow old more through indolence than
through age.
Maxims(–)
St. John Chrysostom c.–
Bishop of Constantinople
Fasting is a medicine.
Homilies on the StatutesIII
The heart is the most noble of all the members in
our body.
Homilies on the StatutesIX
Chu Hui Weng
Chinese sage
To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry
less.
Charles Churchill –
English satirical poet
Most of those evils we poor mortals know
From doctors and imagination flow.
The Prophecy of Famine()
Dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred,
Which, Reason clouded, seize and turn the head.
The CandidateSir Winston Churchill –
British statesman
I must point out that my rule of life prescribes as
an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also
the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be
during all meals and in the intervals between.
Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud
There is no finer investment for any community
than putting milk into babies.
Radio broadcast, March ()
I can think of no better step to signalize the
inauguration of the National Health Service than
that a person who so obviously needs psychiatric
attention should be among the first of its patients.
Speech, July () about Labour’s Health Secretary
Aneurin Bevan
Science bestowed immense new powers on man,
and, at the same time, created conditions which
were largely beyond his comprehension and still
more beyond his control.
Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
March ()
Scientists should be on tap, but not on top.
Twenty-one Yearsby Randolph ChurchillCicero –BC
Roman orator and statesman
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity
that great things are achieved, but by reflection,
force of character, and judgement; in these
qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but
is even richer.
On Old AgeVI (transl. W. A. Falconer)
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one
more year.
On Old AgeVII.
Exercise and temperance can preserve something
of our early strength even in old age.
On Old AgeX.
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
On Old AgeXI.
The keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight.
On the OratorII.lxxxvii.
The appetites of the belly and the palate, far from
diminishing as men grow older, go on increasing.
Pro Caelio
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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