When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of
criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
The Speckled Band
Confucius –BC
Chinese sage and philosopher
Learning without thinking is useless.
Thinking without learning is dangerous.
AnalectsBk II, Ch. XV
Cyril Connolly –
British journalist and writer
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose
in life.
The Unquiet Grave Pt I
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by
boredom and disappointment.
The Unquiet GravePt I
A mistake which is commonly made about
neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It
is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed
with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never
quite in touch with reality.
The Unquiet GravePt II
There are many who dare not kill themselves for
fear of what the neighbours will say.
The Unquiet Grave Pt II
Mike Connolly?
Psychoanalysis is spending forty dollars an hour
to squeal on your mother.
Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations
Sir Edward Cook –
Editor of the Westminster Gazette
The doctors all say we eat too much.
My experience is that they do too.
Quoted after dining with Sir Thomas Barlow MD, by
Reginald Pound in Harley Streetp. . Michael Joseph,
London ()
Robin Coombs –
Professor of Immunology, Cambridge, UK
Erythrocytes were primarily designed by God as
tools for the immunologist and only secondarily as
carriers of haemoglobin.
Attributed
Sir Astley Paston Cooper –
English surgeon, Guy’s Hospital, London and President of
the Royal College Surgeons (Eng) (1827 and 1836)
The best surgeon, like the best general, is the one
who makes the fewest mistakes.
Attributed
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and
I do not believe, that from the first dawn of
medical science to the present moment, a single
correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture.
A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints
If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will
not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no
patients to cure.
By means of my finger nail, I scratched through
the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and
then gradually passed my finger between the
aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the
peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta.
The Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery with
Additional Notes and Casesby Frederick Tyrell, Vol. .
Thomas and George Underwood, London ()
(Description of the first ligation of the aorta in for left
femoral aneurysm)Sir (Vincent) Zachary Cope
–
See ZetaCharles T. Copeland –
To eat is human, to digest divine.
AttributedRobert Copeland
Contemporary US commentator
To get something done a committee should consist
of no more than three men, two of whom are
absent.
Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotationsp. ,
Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London ()Alan Coren –
British humorist and writer
The Act of God designation on all insurance
policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot
be insured for the accidents that are most likely to
happen to you.
The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions‘A Short History of
Insurance’Pierre Corneille –
French playwright
What destroys one man preserves another.
CinnaII.Jean Nicolas Corvisart –
Professor of Medicine, College de France, Paris
The physician who fails to combine pathological
physiology with his anatomy will never be
anything more than a more or less adroit, diligent
and patient prosector.
The Great Doctors—A Biographical History of Medicine
p., Henry E. Sigerist. Dover Publications, New York
() (original W. W. Norton & Co. Ltd )Bill Cosby
Contemporary US comedian
Did you ever see the customers in health-food
stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half
dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people.
They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotationsp. ,
Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London () ·