Edwina Currie –
English Conservative politician
My message to businessmen of this country when
they go abroad on business is that there is one thing
above all they can take with them to stop them
catching AIDS, and that is the wife.
British Minister of State for Health as quoted in The
ObserverFebruary ()
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give
to any young woman is: Don’t screw around, and
don’t smoke.
The Observer‘Sayings of the Week’, April ()
George William Curtis –
US novelist and journalist
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
Lotus-EatingCh.
Harvey Cushing –
US surgeon and founder of neurosurgery, Professor of
Surgery, Harvard
A physician is obligated to consider more than a
diseased organ, more even than the whole man –
he must view the man in his world.
Man AdaptingCh. (René J. Dubois)
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive
for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is
death.
The Medical Career and Other Papers‘Medicine at the
Crossroads’
Three fifths of the practice of medicine depends on
common sense, a knowledge of people and of
human reactions.
The Medical Career and Other Papers‘Medicine at the
Crossroads’
I would like to see the day when somebody would
be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no
hands, for the operative part is the least part of
the work.
Letter to Dr Henry Christian, November ()
Nature saw fit to enclose the central nervous
system in a bony case lined by a tough, protecting
membrane, and within this case she concealed a
tiny organ which lies enveloped by an additional
bony capsule and membrane like the nugget in
the innermost of a series of Chinese boxes.
Neurohypophysial Membrane From a Clinical StandpointYale
University Press ()
Baron Georges Cuvier –
French anatomist
The observer listens to Nature; the experimenter
questions and forces her to unveil herself.
Attributed
Czech proverb
Small children stamp on your lap, big ones on
your heart.
A. S. Daar
Contemporary medical anthropologist
Medicine cannot be practised without reference to
social and cultural values, even in this post-
modern era.
Brain death and transplantation: a reply. Current
Anthropology: –()J. Chalmers Da Costa –
Surgeon and writer
Objectionable people are numerous. They have
one trait in common, that is, a most unfortunate
tendency to longevity.
Selected Papers and Speeches‘Behind the Office Doors’
A fashionable surgeon like a pelican can be
recognized by the size of his bill.
The Trials and Triumphs of the SurgeonCh.
Diagnosis by intuition is a rapid method of
reaching a wrong conclusion.
The Trials and Triumphs of the SurgeonCh.
What we call experience is often a dreadful list of
ghastly mistakes.
The Trials and Triumphs of the SurgeonCh.
They know nothing of the haunting anxieties, the
keen disappointments, the baffling perplexities,
the dread responsibilities, and the numerous self-
reproaches of one who spends his life as an
operating surgeon.
The Trials and Triumphs of the SurgeonCh.
Sometimes when a doctor gets too lazy to work he
becomes a politician.
The Trials and Triumphs of the SurgeonCh.
A man who has a theory which he tries to fit to
facts is like a drunkard who tries his key
haphazard in door after door, hoping to find one
itfits.
The trials and Triumphs of the SurgeonCh. Kennedy Dalziel ?–?
Scottish surgeon and discoverer of ulcerative colitis
The affected bowel gives the consistence and
smoothness of an eel in a state of rigor mortis and
the glands, though enlarged, are evidently not
caseous.
British Medical Journal: –() (Describing
Crohn’s disease for the first time)Danish proverb
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.C. D. Darlington –
British geneticist
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and
partridges, on reaching maturity, having
passed through a period of playfulness or
promiscuity, establish what they hope and
expect will be a permanent and fertile mating
relationship. This we call marriage.
Genetics and ManCh. ·. .