Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every in…

- Henri De Mondeville

Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowi…

- Henri De Mondeville

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the …

- Henri De Mondeville

Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling h…

- Henri De Mondeville