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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us, Every day! While medical detectives, With powerful objectives, Watch your play.

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.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

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.

And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.

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.

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.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.