James B. Herrick –
US Professor of Medicine, Chicago
The doctor may also learn more about the illness
from the way the patient tells the story than from
the story itself.
Memoirs of Eighty YearsCh. VIII
A study of past American history should cause
the medical profession of today to fear the
politicians even though they offer gifts.
Memoirs of Eighty YearsCh. VIII
Robert Herrick –
English poet
Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Hesperides‘Abstinence’
’Tis the Surgeons praise, and height of Art,
Not to cut off, but cure the vicious part.
Hesperides‘Lenitie’
Christian A. Herter –
US neurologist, New York
I like to think of medicine in our day as an ever
broadening and deepening river, fed by the limpid
streams of pure science.
Address to the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University ()
Sir Austin Bradford Hill –
British epidemiologist and statistician
Why did you start, what did you do, what answer
did you get, and what does it mean anyway? That
is a logical order for a scientific paper.
Attributed
Wayne Hill
Contemporary English journalist
Hospitals are always touted as designed for our
superior care, but they actually exist for the
convenience of doctors.
Shakespeare’s Insults for Doctorsp. . Ebury Press ()
If art outruns science at any point in medical
practice, diagnosis is where it happens.
Shakespeare’s Insults for Doctorsp.. Ebury Press ()
Specialisation is proof of how far medicine has
skidded off the path.
Shakespeare’s Insults for Doctorsp. Ebury Press ()
It lets them abandon heaps of medical expertise to
sluggish ignorance in the way farmers dump
excess production to keep prices up. That is the
genius of specialisation; an ability to claim general
non-knowledge.
Shakespeare’s Insults for Doctorsp. Ebury Press ()
William Hillary –
English physician, clinical scientist, and traveller
It is by this method of reasoning from data,
founded upon observations and real facts, that the
healing art must be improved and brought to a
state of perfection.
Doctors in Science and Society, Essays of a Clinical Scientist
p. .Christopher C. Booth. British Medical Journal
Publications ()Hindu proverbs
Ask the patient not the doctor where the pain is.
Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.
In illness the physician is a father; in
convalescence, a friend; when health is restored,
he is a guardian.
Walking makes for a long life.John M. Hinton –
British gastroenterologist
The dissatisfied dead cannot noise abroad the
negligence they have received.
The physical and mental distress of the dying. Quarterly
Journal of Medicine: ()Hippocrates –BC
Greek physician
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting,
experience treacherous, judgement difficult.
AphorismsI
Extreme remedies are most appropriate for
extreme diseases.
Aphorisms I
When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good
symptom.
AphorismsII.
Drinking strong wine cures hunger.
AphorismsII.(transl. Francis Adams)
It is better that a fever succeed to a convulsion,
than a convulsion to a fever.
AphorismsII.
When a person who is recovering from a disease
has a good appetite, but his body does not improve
in conditions, it is a bad symptom.
AphorismsII.(transl. Francis Adams)
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when
immoderate, constitute disease.
AphorismsII
Old people, on the whole, have fewer complaints
than young; but those chronic diseases which do
befall them generally never leave them.
AphorismsII.
Persons who have had frequent and severe attacks
of swooning, without any manifest cause, die
suddenly.
AphorismsII.
Persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die
earlier than those who are slender.
AphorismsII. . ·