Antoine Lavoisier –
French chemist
We must trust to nothing but facts:
These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot
deceive.
Elements of ChemistryPreface (transl. Robert Kerr)
Public usefulness and the interests of humanity
ennoble the most disgusting work.
Attributed
Nigel Lawson –
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The British have no unifying faith only a belief in
the National Health Service.
Attributed
Stephen B. Leacock –
Canadian economist and humorist
Any lover of humanity who looks back on the
achievements of medical science must feel his
heart glow and his right ventricle expand with the
percardiac stimulus of a permissible pride.
Literary Lapses‘How to Be a Doctor’ ()
Chauncey D. Leake –
US pharmacologist
Let us remember always that whatever truth we
may get by scientific study about ourselves and
our environment is always relative, tentative,
subject to change and correction, and that there
are no final answers.
New York State Journal of Medicine: ()
Fran Lebowitz –
US writer
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Metropolitan Life‘Food for Thought and Vice Versa’
Stanislaw Lec –
Polish poet
Wounds heal and become scars. But scars grow
with us.
Unkempt thoughts
John le Carré (David John Moore
Cornwell) –
British novelist
He is like the surgeon who has grown tired of
blood. He is content that others should operate.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
W. E. H. Lecky –
Irish historian and philosopher
Abortion...was probably regarded by the average
Roman of the later days of Paganism much as
Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial
excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as
scarcely to deserve censure.
History of European MoralsVol. II, Ch. IV
James Le Fanu
Doctor and medical journalist
The map of mental illness, like that of Africa
before the Victorian explorers, remains a blank.
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicinep. . Little, Brown and
Co., London ()
The failure of the two great projects of the last
two decades – The New Genetics and The Social
Theory—constitutes the fall of modern medicine.
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicinep. . Little, Brown
and Co., London ()Legal phrases
A madman has no free will
(Furiosi nulla voluntas est.)Edwin P. Lehman –
US surgeon
It is asking more than human perfection to
assume that a surgeon’s judgment may not be
influenced unconsciously by pressing
financial need.
Surgery: ()Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von
Leibnitz –
I often say a great doctor kills more people than a
great general.
AttributedNikolai Lenin
US physician
The most important thing in illness is never to lose
heart.
AttributedVladimir Ilyich Lenin –
Russian revolutionary and head of state
Either socialism will defeat the louse, or the louse
will defeat socialism.
Attributed in on the cause of typhus. Quoted by
L. Tarassevitch, Epidemics in Russia since . Report to the
Health Committee of the League of Nations. Epidemiological
Intelligence No. , March ()René Leriche –
French professor of surgery
Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery,
in which from time to time he goes to pray, a
cemetery of bitterness and regret, of which he
seeks the reason for certain of his failures.
La Philosophie de la ChirurgieForewordAlan Jay Lerner –
US lyricist and playwright
Just think of the American Medical Association
coming out againstliving in the past.
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