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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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.]
You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at
those who, after thirty years of read more
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.
When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.
When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to read more
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
