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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months read more
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where read more
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.
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the
crowd of physicians had killed him."
Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the
crowd of physicians had killed him."
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an
art.
[Lat., Aegri quia non omnes read more
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an
art.
[Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla
medicina est.]