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“Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton (l. 92)
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“So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill,
And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: To John Dryden, Esq. (l. 71)
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“Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut
Some cureless limb, before in use he put
His violent Engins on the vicious member,
Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,
And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 1,018)
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“One doctor, singly like the sculler plies,
The patient struggles, and by inches dies;
But two physicians, like a pair of oars,
Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 1,018)
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“"Is there no hope?" the sick man said,
The silent doctor shook his head,
And took his leave with signs of sorrow,
Despairing of his fee to-morrow.”
John Gay Quotes Source: The Sick Man and the Angel
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“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a
major operation by a surgeon.”
Dag Hammarskjold Quotes Source: News Summaries, Mar. 18.1956
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“Oh, powerful bacillus,
With wonder how you fill us,
Every day!
While medical detectives,
With powerful objectives,
Watch your play.”
William Tod Helmuth Quotes Source: Ode to the Bacillus
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“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk
to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind
and all the worse for the fishes.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Lecture before the Harvard Medical School
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“A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: The Catspaw (act I, sc. I)
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“A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
[Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (X, 356)
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“You behold in me
Only a travelling Physician;
One of the few who have a mission
To cure incurable diseases,
Or those that are called so.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. I)
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“And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
And show me simples of a thousand names,
Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Comus (l. 626)
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“Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the
crowd of physicians had killed him."”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XXXVII)
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“How the Doctor's brow should smile,
Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XXXVII)
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“We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
[Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Ara Amatoria (III, 583)
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“A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
[Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]”
Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) Quotes Source: Satyricon
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“I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.”
Plutarch Quotes Source: De Sanitate tuenda (vol. II)
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“So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
Bold in the practice of mistaken rules,
Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 108)
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“Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 174)
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“Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III)
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“Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 330)
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“You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
And what does he, but write a bill,
Of which you need not read one letter,
The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.
For if you knew but what you take,
Though you recover, he must break.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: Alma (canto III, l. 97)
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“But, when the wit began to wheeze,
And wine had warm'd the politician,
Cur'd yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: The Remedy Worse than the Disease
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“Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt,
loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: The Remedy Worse than the Disease
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“Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success
soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they
commit, the earth covereth.”
Francis Quarles Quotes Source: Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man
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