<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Medicine - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26747]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26749]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26741]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26732]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26735]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26731]]></link><description><![CDATA[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),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   And ran dismayed away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,      An alligator stuffed, and other skins       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves        A beggarly account of empty boxes,         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death   Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, have in some measure made me well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them   And show the heavens more just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26718]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king already   Hath married the fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26711]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26696]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26697]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26698]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You behold in me Only a travelling Physician;  One of the few who have a mission   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26699]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26700]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26702</guid></item></channel></rss>