“A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student”
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“A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint”
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside”
“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too”
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me”
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience”
“A feeble body weakens the mind”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete”
“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething”
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness ”
“All diseases run into one, old age”
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body”
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?”
“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.”
“The wish for healing has always been half of health”
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity ”
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey”