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You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest (Gonzalo at II, i)
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When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, iv)
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for
all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
[Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at
those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what
was good or bad for their bodies.
Author: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Source: Annales (bk. VI, ch. XLVI)
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The medicine increases the disease.
[Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (XII, 46)
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human
body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will
benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal
attention to the rich and the poor.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Physicians
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of
fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among
them.
Author: Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen)
Source: Hours in a Library, found in the "Times Literary Suppliement" (London, Nov. 30, 1916)
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
Author: Walter Cronkite
Source: None
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
Author: French Proverb
Source: None
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
Author: Elisabeth KüBler-Ross
Source: None
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
Author: John L. McClenahan
Source: None
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Author: Alfred Kazin
Source: None
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Author: Sir William Osler
Source: None
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Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
Author: James Bryce
Source: None
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It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.
Author: Christiaan Barnard
Source: None
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Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: None
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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.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
Author: James Bryce
Source: None
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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