Paracelsus c.–
Swiss physician and alchemist
These are the qualifications of a good surgeon:
Regarding his innate temper:
A clear conscience,
Desire to learn and to gather experience,
A gentle heart and a cheerful spirit,
Moral manner of life and sobriety in all things,
Greater interest in being useful to his patient than
to himself.
Antimedicus(transl. Norbert Guterman in Selected
Writings)
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It
does not consist of compounding pills and plasters;
it deals with the very processes of life, which must
be understood before they may be guided.
Die grosse Wundarznei
The art of healing comes from nature not from
the physician. Therefore the physician must start
from nature, with an open mind.
Seven DefensesCh.
There are two kinds of physician—those who
work for love, and those who work for their own
profit.
Seven DefensesCh.
The physician is only the servant of nature, not
her master. Therefore it behoves medicine to
follow the will of nature.
Three Books on the French DiseaseBk III, Ch. XI
He who is happy always gets well.
Attributed
Knowledge makes the physician, not the name or
the school.
Attributed
All things are poisonous and there is nothing that
is harmless. The dose alone decides that
something is no poison.
Attributed
Ambroise Paré –
French surgeon
Always give the patient hope, even when death
seems at hand.
Attributed
I dressed him and God healed him.
Oeuvres()
There are five duties in surgery: to remove what is
superfluous, to restore was has been dislocated, to
separate what has grown together, to reunite what
has been divided and to redress the defects of
nature.
Attributed
Better a tried remedy than a new-fangled one.
Attributed
When gangrene is pronounced, nothing will help
but the knife.
Attributed
Dorothy Parker –
US satirical author
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
Enough Rope‘News Item’James Parkinson –
English general practitioner
I need hardly repeat to you the vulgar observation
that a physician seldom obtains bread by his
profession until he has no teeth to eat it.
The Hospital Pupil, H. D. Symonds ()
Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened
muscular power, in parts not in action and even
when supported; with a propensity to bend the
trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a
running pace; the senses and intellects being
uninjured.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. Sherwood, Neely and Jones,
London ()Samuel Parr –
English pedagogue and Latin scholar
Of the three learned professions, in erudition, in
science and in habits of deep and comprehensive
thinking, the pre-eminence must be assigned in
some degree to physicians.
AttributedCaleb Parry –
English physician and researcher
It is as important to know what sort of person has
the disease as to know what sort of disease the
person has.
AttributedPashto proverb
Until he gets over smallpox, parents do not count
their child their own.Boris Pasternak –
Russian novelist
At the moment of child-birth, every woman has
the same aura of isolation, as though she were
abandoned, alone.
Doctor ZhivagoCh. , Sect. Louis Pasteur –
French scientist
Science proceeds by successive answers to
questions more and more subtle, coming nearer
and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Etudes sur le biereCh. VI, Sect. vi (transl. Rene J. Dubos)
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of
beverages.
Etudes sur le vinPt , Ch. , Sect. B·