Nathaniel Cotton –
British physician and poet
Would you extend your narrow span,
And make the most of life you can;
Would you, when medicines cannot save,
Descend with ease into the grave;
Calmly retire, like the evening light,
And cheerful bid the world goodnight?
Visions in VerseIII ‘Health’
Émile Coué –
French psychologist
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and
better.
My MethodCh.
Abraham Cowley –
English poet
Life is an incurable Disease.
Pindarique Odes‘To Dr. Scarborough’ VI
William Cowper –
English surgeon and anatomist
Grief is itself a medicine.
Charity
John Redman Coxe
–
The longer I live the less confidence I have in
drugs and the greater is my confidence in the
regulation and administration of diet and
regimen.
A Short View of the Importance and Respectability of the
Science of Medicine. An address to the Philadelphia Medical
Society, February ()
Creole proverb
Sickness comes riding upon a hare, but goes away
riding upon a tortoise.
Sir James Crichton-Brown
–
British physician and psychiatrist
There is no short-cut to longevity. To win it is the
work of a lifetime, and the promotion of it is a
branch of preventive medicine.
The Prevention of Senility
Francis H. C. Crick –
UK molecular biologist, discoverer of DNA structure
We think we have found the basic mechanism by
which life comes from life.
Letter to his son, Michael Crick, March ()
Quentin Crisp –
English-born writer
Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way
to the grave.
The Naked Civil ServantColin Cromar –?
Scottish-born US surgeon, Pasadena, Texas
Deliberate colostomy, first performed a bare
century and a half ago, was conceived as a
desperate means to relieve total obstruction of the
colon or rectum when all lesser remedies had
failed.
A History of Colostomy()A. J. Cronin –?
As a doctor you would be well advised to acquaint
yourself with your patients’ interests if not their
prejudices.
Advice to Dr Finlay from Dr Cameron in Dr Finlay’s
CasebookWilliam Cullen –
Scottish professor of medicine and pioneer in
psychological medicine
Persons living very entirely on vegetables are
seldom of a plump and succulent habit.
First lines of the Practice of PhysicPt III, Bk ()
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to
change often their physician.
Practice of PhysicPt II, Bk II, Ch.
I propose to comprehend, under the title of
neuroses, all those preternatural affections of
sense or motion, which are without pyrexia as a
part of the primary disease.
Quoted on ‘neurosis’ in The Oxford English DictionaryBishop Richard Cumberland
–
Bishop of Peterborough, England
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The Duty of Contending for the Faith, by Bishop
George HorneMarie Curie –
Polish-born doctor and scientist
In science we must be interested in things, not in
persons.
Quoted by Eve Curie in Madame CurieCh. XVI (transl.
Vincent Sheean)Thomas Curling –
President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
An artificial anus in the loin, well established is
attended with little inconvenience or trouble in a
healthy state of the alimentary canal.
Lancet: –() (first description of a colostomy in
English) ·