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Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. (Quote by - French Proverb)
One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
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. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. (Quote by - Bible)
And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. (Quote by - John Milton)
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. (Quote by - Syrus)
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
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. (Quote by - Elisabeth KüBler-Ross)
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. (Quote by - John L. McClenahan)
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. (Quote by - Petronius)
'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case can be no worse, The desp'rat'st is the wisest course. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1)
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)