Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body,
soundness of health is impossible.
Tusculanarum DisputationumBk III

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more
numerous than those of the body.
Tusculanarum DisputationumBk III, Ch. 

Physicians, when the cause of disease is
discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
Tusculanarum DisputationumBk III, Ch. 

Alonzo Clark –

US physician and Professor of Medicine, New York

Every man’s disease is his personal property.
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine: ()

The medical errors of one century constitute the
popular faith of the next.
Attributed

You may know the intractability of a disease by its
long list of remedies.
Attributed

There is no courtesy in science.
Attributed

Symptoms which cannot be readily marshalled
must be credited to the nerves.
Attributed

Michael Clark –

Gastroenterologist, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London

The young gastroenterologist of today is only
happy if he can learn another endoscopic
technique, the excitement of the ’s has been
replaced by the decade of the Peeping Tom.
Lancet: ()

Sir Stanley Clayton ?–?

British obstetrician

Until the end of the last century, and indeed, until
the early years of the present one, the vast bulk of
midwifery was done in the home and nearly all
babies were born under the care of an untrained
or self-trained woman or midwife.
Obstetrics by Ten Teachers(th edn, p. Edward Arnold,
London ()

Logan Clendening –

Medical historian

Surgery does the ideal thing—it separates the
patient from his disease. It puts the patient back to
bed and the disease in a bottle.
Modern Methods of TreatmentCh. 

Rest in bed will do more for more diseases than
any other single procedure.
Attributed

Men are not going to embrace eugenics. They are
going to embrace the first likely, trim-figured girl
with limpid eyes and flashing teeth who comes
along, in spite of the fact that her germ plasm is
probably reeking with hypertension, cancer,
haemophilia, colour blindness, hay fever, epilepsy,
and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Attributed

Arthur Hugh Clough –

British poet

Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive

Officiously to keep alive.

The Latest Decalogue

John of Clyn th century

Irish friar

In scarcely any house did only one die, but all

together, man and wife with their children and

household, traversed the same road, the road of

death.

Annals of Ireland(relating the effects of the Black Death in

Kilkenny)

Irvin S. Cobb –

US physician

I would rather that any white rabbit on earth

should have Asiatic cholera twice than that I

should have it just once.

Quoted in Familiar Medical QuotationsMaurice B. Strauss

(ed.). by Little, Brown and Company, Boston ()

Forrester Cockburn –

Professor Child Health, Glasgow, Scotland

The origins of physical and mental health and

disease lie predominantly in the early development

of the child.

Preface to Children’s Medicine and Surgery()

Jean Baptiste Coffinhal-Dubail

?–?

French revolutionary tribune

The Republic has no need for scientists.

Comment at trial of Antoine Lavoisier, Paris ()

Thomas Cogan c.–

English physician

Drink wine and have the gout drink none and

have the gout.

Haven of Health, Dedication

Henry, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead

–

British physician

All diagnoses are provisional formulae for action.

Lancet: –()

The feasibility of an operation is not the best

indication for its performance.

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England:

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