Paul Reznikoff –?
Conflict between science and religion should never
exist. Their aims are entirely different—science
tries to find out how, religion deals with why.
Attributed
Rhazes (abu-Bakr Muhammed
ibn-Zakariya al Razi) –
Persian physician (Baghdad school)
When the disease is stronger than the patient, the
physician will not be able to help him at all, and if
the strength of the patient is greater than the
strength of the disease, he does not need a
physician at all.
The Preservation of Youth
The patient who consults a great many physicians
is likely to have a very confused state of mind.
Attributed
All that is written in books is worth much less
than the experience of a wise doctor.
Attributed
At the beginning of a disease choose such
remedies as will not lessen the patient’s strength.
Attributed
Jonathan E. Rhoads
US paediatrician, University of North Carolina
Nurses and doctors who accompany patients on
their final journey out of this life observe many
ways of dying and many mechanisms of death.
Some of these we understand to a greater extent
than others.
Foreword in Atlas of Nutritional Support Techniques. Little,
Brown and Co., Boston ()
One of the common mechanisms has been the
accumulation of nutritional deficits leading very
often to a loss of resistance to infection and the
occurrence of an acute infection, such as
pneumonia as the immediate prelude to death.
Foreword in Atlas of Nutritional Support Techniques. Little,
Brown and Co., Boston ()
Dickinson W. Richards –
US Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Columbia University,
and Nobel laureate
In order for the stethoscope to function, two
things have to happen. There has to be, by God,
a sick man at one end of it and a doctor at the
other! The doctor has to be within thirty inches
of the patient.
Transactions of the Association of American Physicians:
()
Jean Paul Richter –
German humorist and prose writer
Sleep, riches, and health are only truly enjoyed
after they have been interrupted.
Flower, Fruit and Thorn PiecesCh. ()
David Riesman –
US physician
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest
enjoyment, be students all your lives.
AttributedSydney Ringer –
British physician and physiologist
A man is a fool who holds two hospital
appointments.
Quoted in Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn), p. ,
Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon, Lancashire, UK
()Isabel P. Robinault
Contemporary US sexologist
Sex is not an antidote for loneliness, feelings of
inadequacy, fear of aging, hostility, or an inability
to form warm friendships.
Sex, Society and the Disabled. ICD Rehabilitation and Research
Unit, New York (Harper and Row, Maryland USA) ()Duc François de la Rochefoucauld
–
French humanist and satirist
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his
judgment.
Maxims
There are certain situations, as there are maladies,
which the accepted remedies serve only to
aggravate at times; a truly clever man will know
when it is dangerous to apply them.
Maxims(transl. Constantine FitzGibbon)
To preserve one’s health by too strict a regime is in
itself a tedious malady.
Maxims
There are two things which Man cannot look at
directly without flinching: the sun and death.
Maxims
Few people know how to be old.
MaximsWilhelm Conrad Roentgen –
German physicist and discoverer of X-rays, Professor at
Munich
For brevity’s sake I shall use the expression ‘rays’
and to distinguish them from others of this name,
I shall call them ‘x-rays’.
On a New Kind of Rays
Apparatuses are cleverer than men and anyone
who mishandles an apparatus is my enemy.
Quoted in Dictionary of Medical Eponyms(nd edn), p. ,
Firkin and Whitworth. The Parthenon Lancashire, UK
()Roger of Salerno –
Who from now on, wishes to practise medicine,
has to present himself before our officials and
examiners, in order to pass their judgment.
Chirugia magistri Rogeri ·