Warren H. Cole –?
US surgeon
Too often surgical therapy for elective conditions is
postponed in elderly patients in the hope, I
presume, that the patient will die of some other
disease before the present one threatens his life.
Annals of Surgery: ()
Samuel Taylor Coleridge –
British poet
The history of man for the nine months preceding
his birth would, probably, be far more interesting
and contain events of greater moment than all the
three score and ten years that follow it.
Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner V
The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s
desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Table TalkJuly ()
Abraham Colles –
Irish surgeon
Be assured, that no man can know his own
profession perfectly, who knows nothing else; and
that he who aspires to eminence in any particular
science must first acquire the habit of
philosophising on matters of science in general.
A Treatise on Surgical AnatomyPt , Sect.
Richard Collier –
British journalist
The disease took at least half a million American
lives—ten times as many as the Germans took
during the war—yet only in the hardest-hit cities
did it ever win through to the newspapers’ front
pages.
Epilogue to The Plague of the Spanish Lady(influenza
epidemic October –January )
John Churton Collins –
Professor of Literature, Birmingham, UK
Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it
leaves no opportunity for repentance.
Life and Memoirs of John Churton CollinsAppendix VII
(quoted by L. C. Collins)
Mortimer Collins –
British writer
A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
The Unknown Quantity
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong
the youth of the mind.
The Village ComedyVol.
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his
treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain
his physicians cannot cure.
The Village ComedyVol. II, Ch.
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in
search of nostrums by which they vainly hope
they may get more time to squander.
The Village ComedyVol. II
Professors in every branch of the sciences prefer
their own theories to truth: the reason is that their
theories are private property but the truth is
common stock.
The Village ComedyVol. IICharles Caleb Colton –
English clergyman, sportsman, author, and suicide
Examinations are formidable even to the best
prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
LaconVol. I, p. (–)
The poorest man would not part with health for
money, but the richest would gladly part with all
their money for health.
LaconVol. , Ch.
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always
agree to die together.
LaconVol. I, Ch.
It is better to have recourse to a quack, if he can
cure our disorder, although he cannot explain it,
than to a physician, if he can explain our disease
but cannot cure it.
LaconVol. I, Ch. Andrew Combe –
Physician to Queen Victoria
What we desire our children to become,
we must endeavour to be before them.
Physiological and Moral Management of Infancy()Alex Comfort –
English physician and sexologist
The idea of the human responsibility of the doctor
has been present since medicine was
indistinguishable from magic.
The ListenerNovember ()Auguste Comte –
French philosopher and sociologist, and founder of
Positivism
To understand a science it is necessary to know its
history.
Positive Philosophy(–)Arthur Conan Doyle –
British crime novelist
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of
lessons with the greatest for the last.
His Last Bow‘The Adventure of the Red Circle’ . ·