Wilfrid G. Oakley –
British physician, King’s College Hospital, London
Man may be the captain of his fate, but his also
the victim of his blood sugar.
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Julien Offray de la Mettrie –
French philosopher and army surgeon
The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs
have muscles for walking.
L’Homme machine
The human body is a machine which winds its
own springs: the living image of perpetual
movement.
L’Homme machine
Sir Heneage Ogilvie –
Consulting Surgeon, Guy’s Hospital, London
A misleading symptom is misleading only to one
able to be misled.
Surgery, Orthodox and HeterodoxCh.
Joe Orton –
British dramatist
It’s all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is
present at the conception.
Entertaining Mr. SloaneIII
George Orwell (Eric Blair) –
British novelist
The essence of being human is that one does not
seek perfection.
Shooting an Elephant‘Reflections on Gandhi’
Sir William Osler –
Canadian physician and Oxford professor of medicine
There are only two sorts of doctors: those who
practise with their brains, and those who practise
with their tongues.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Teaching and Thinking’
To prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal
the sick—this is our work.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Chauvinism in
Medicine’
In the records of no other profession is there to be
found so large a number of men who have
combined intellectual pre-eminence with nobility
of character.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Chauvinism in
Medicine’
In no profession does culture count for so much as
in medicine, and no man needs it more than the
general practitioner.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Chauvinism in
Medicine’
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor
can practise medicine, but it is not astonishing
how badly he may do it.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Books and Men’
In the mortality bills, pneumonia is an easy second,
to tuberculosis; indeed, in many cities the death-rate
is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase
of Bunyan, ‘the Captain of the men of death.’
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Medicine in the
Nineteenth Century’I desire no other epitaph (than) that I taught
medical students in the wards, as I regard this as
by far the most useful and important work I have
been called upon to do.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘The Fixed Period’The trained nurse has become one of the great
blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the
physician and the priest, and not inferior to either
in her mission.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Nurse and Patient’Medicine is the only worldwide profession,
following everywhere the same methods, actuated
by the same ambitions, and pursuing the
same ends.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Unity, Peace, and
Concord’Errors in judgment must occur in the practice of
an art which consists largely in balancing
probabilities.
Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses‘Teacher and Student’The first figure of a physician to stand out clearly
from the mists of antiquity.
Writing of‘Imhotep’, an Egyptian healing divinityA physician who treats himself has a fool for a
patient.
Sir William Osler: AphorismsCh. (William B. Bean)One of the first duties of the physician is to
educate the masses not to take medicine.
Sir William Osler: AphorismsCh. Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and
exercise – the quadrangle of health.
Sir William Osler: AphorismsCh. Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
Sir William Osler: AphorismsCh. Soap and water and common sense are the best
disinfectants.
Sir William Osler: AphorismsCh. Adhesions are the refuge of the diagnostically
destitute.
Sir William Osler: AphorismsCh. A desire to take medicine is, perhaps, the great
feature which distinguishes man from other
animals.
Science: ()Dysentery has been more fatal to armies than
powder and shot.
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