James J. Putnam –
No argument is needed to show what
transforming power the mind can exert.
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: ()
‘The man’ is above all else, the mind of the man,
and not only the mind as an organ of conscious
thought but the mind as an organ of bodily
nutrition, and the mind as a vast theatre for the
interplay of contending forces that do not always
recognise the personal consciousness as their ruler.
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: ()
Françis Quarles –
English poet
Man is Heaven’s masterpiece.
EmblemsBk II
Physicians of all men are the most happy; what
success soever they have, the world proclaimeth,
and what fault they commit, the earth covereth.
Hieroglyphics of the Life of ManIV
Quintilian –c.
Roman teacher
Medicine for the dead is too late.
François Rabelais –
French physician and satirist
‘Appetite comes as you eat’, said Bishop Hanges
Mans; but thirst vanishes as you drink!
GargantuaBk 1, Ch. 5 (transl. Jacques Le Clercq)
Without health life is not life; it is unlivable.
Without health, life spells but languor and an
image of death.
PantagruelBk IV, Prologue
Bernardino Ramazzini –
When you come to a patient’s house, you should
ask him what sort of pains he has, what caused
them, how many days he has been ill, whether the
bowels are working and what sort of food he
eats...I may venture to add one more question:
what occupation does he follow?
Diseases of Workers, Preface (transl. W. C. Wright)
Dr Virginia Ramirez de Barquero
Costa Rica health official
We trust the drug companies. They wouldn’t lie
to us.
Quoted in The Drugging of the AmericasM. Silverman.
University of California Press, Berkeley ()
Santiago Ramón y Cajal –
Spanish physician, professor of histology, and Nobel Prize
winner
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions,
like their cranial sutures, are ossified.
Charlas de Cafe
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the
reflection of the structure of the brain, will also be
a mystery.
Charlas de Cafe
It is best to attenuate the virulence of our
adversaries with the chloroform of courtesy and
flattery, much as bacteriologists disarm a
pathogen by converting it into a vaccine.
Charlas de Cafe
Like an earthquake, true senility announces itself
by trembling and stammering.
Charlas de Cafe
That which enters the mind through reason can
be corrected. That which is admitted through
faith, hardly ever.
Charlas de Cafe
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as
life itself shortens.
Charlas de Cafe
Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral
chagrin lasts indefinitely.
Charlas de CafeSvend Ranulf –?
Statistical evidence shows that the greater the
intellectual freedom, and the higher the general
average of intelligence in a community, the
greater is also the number of suicides.
The Jealousy of the Gods, and Criminal Law at AthensCh. IILouis-Antoine Ranvier –
French professor of histology
It is necessary in a word to make histology
experimental. Such is the supreme goal of our
research, such is the basis of future medicine.
Quoted in Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn), p. ,
Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon, Lancashire, UK
()Isidor S. Ravdin –
Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
In the surgery of the future the individualist will
be left by the roadside, for after all surgery is part
of that broader field of experimental pathology to
which all the medical sciences belong.
Annals of Surgery: ()John Ray –
English naturalist
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
English ProverbsTheodor Reik –
German psychoanalyst
Work and love—these are the basics. Without
them there is neurosis.
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