Quotations On Medicine I

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.


My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin


The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~Plato


Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ~C. Jeff Miller


In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~Martin H. Fischer


It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown


Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ~Robert Burton


I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ~James H. Boren


A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ~Francis O'Walsh


Did God who gave us flowers and trees,
Also provide the allergies?
~E.Y. Harburg, "A Nose Is a Nose Is a Nose," 1965


I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton


It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~Thomas More


I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. ~Finley Peter Dunne


You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams


To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher


A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ~Martin H. Fischer


Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life!
~Emily Dickinson


Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ~Peter Mere Latham


In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author Unknown


Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French


I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome


Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ~Martin H. Fischer