Every physician almost hath his favourite disease..
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the ph….
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psych….
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality..
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger..
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker..
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and….
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational..
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick..
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician..
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administe….
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician..
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god..
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot ….
General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for….
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason hav….
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the phys….
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome..
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind..
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit..
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered..