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“Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.”
“Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'”
“A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps.”
“A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.”
“I was sick and ye visited me.”
“There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.”
“Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.”
“Those in the United States who by and large have the best medical care and advice readily available to them at the least expense are the families of the specialists in internal medicine. These fami...”
“Doctor feel my purse.”
“In my youth once when I had a really exquisite toothache I suddenly realized that my tooth had temporarily become the centre of the universe that its outcries were more important than anything else...”
“If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.”
“I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.”
“A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.”
“We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing that it is growth rather than treatment.”
“So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or ev...”
“Tranquillizers do not change our environment nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers fears or anxiety with whic...”
“When you hear hoofbeats think of horses before zebras.”
“Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.”
“In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.”
“I came I saw I concurred.”
