Lorenz Heister –
German professor of surgery
In every surgical intervention, one should prefer
the method which can be used with few and
simple instruments, over that which requires a big
apparatus difficult to work with: most tools have
been invented out of pomposity rather than utility.
Chirurgerie
Hermann von Helmholtz –
German physicist and physician
I have make a discovery during my lectures on the
Physiology of the Sense-organs, which may be of
the utmost importance in ophthalmology.
Letter to his father, December ()
The great joy of being the first to see a living
human retina.
Helmholtz reporting his discovery
Burton Jesse Hendrick –
US writer
The consultant’s first obligation is to his patient,
not his brother physician.
John Hendy –
English barrister
I noticed early on that our National Health Service
seemed to spend inordinate time and resources in
displaying a standard and style of industrial
relations which were quite unique in their inept
insensitivity and arrogant incompetence.
Foreword to Whistleblowing in the Health ServiceGeoffrey
Hunt (ed.). Edward Arnold, London ()
William Ernest Henley –
English poet and playwright
And lo, The Hospital, grey, quiet, old, Where Life
and Death like friendly chafferers meet.
In Hospital‘Enter Patient’
Henry IV –
King of France
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of
anything else that is great.
Attributed
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
–
US writer
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with
sniffles predominating.
The Gifts of the Magi
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert (AP)
–
English writer, barrister, and politician
I love the doctors, they are dears,
But must they spend such years and years
Investigating such a lot
Of illnesses that no one’s got?
Doctors in Science and Society: Essays of a Clinical Scientist
p. , Christopher C. Booth. British Medical Journal
Publications ()George Herbert –
English clergyman and poet
A good digestion turneth all to health.
The Temple‘The Church Porch’ ()Oliver Herford –
English writer and illustrator
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
AttributedHerodotus –BC
Greek historian
They have no physicians, but when a man is ill
they lay him in the public square, and the
passersby come up to him, and if they have ever
had his disease themselves or have known anyone
who has suffered from it, they give him advice,
recommending to do whatever they found good in
their own case, or in the case known to them. And
no-one is allowed to pass the sick man in silence
without asking him what his ailment is.
Attributed
Medicine with them is distributed in the following
way; every physician is for one disease and not for
several, and the whole country is full of physicians
of the eyes; others of the head; others of the teeth;
others of the belly; and others of obscure diseases.
On Egyptian Medicine
Dreams in general originate from those incidents
which have most occupied the thoughts during
the day.
HistoriesVII. (transl. William Beloe)
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
HistoriesVII. Don Herold –
US writer and cartoonist
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have
simply quit in disgust.
Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotationsp. ,
Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London ()Herophilus c.BC
Alexandrian physician and philosopher
Wisdom and art, strength and wealth, are of no
avail if health be lacking.
Sextus Empiricus in Adversus EthicusXI.
The best physician is he who can distinguish the
possible from the impossible.
Sextus Empiricus in Adversus EthicusXI.Charles Judson Herrick –
US anatomist and comparative neurologist
You don’t grow old; when you cease to grow, you
are old. ·