Peter McDonald

Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations0198565984

The Oxford Book of Medical Quotations presents a wonderfully entertaining and eclectic range of quotations covering all aspects of medicine through the ages. It couples profound statements from famous scientists with witty one-liners from the likes of Woody Allen and Spike Milligan. Packed with hundreds of quotations, it is a book that anyone in the medical profession, or with an interest in health, will find an invaluable source of reference hand considerable entertainment.

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Title Page……Page 4
ISBN 0192630474……Page 5
Dedication……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
Acknowledgements……Page 10
Contents……Page 12
The Index……Page 13
Francis Heed Adler……Page 14
John Allan Dalrymple Anderson……Page 15
Anonymous……Page 16
Arabic proverbs……Page 18
Asclepiades……Page 19
Washington Ayer……Page 20
Alvan L. Barach……Page 21
G. H. Beaton……Page 22
Jeremy Bentham……Page 23
Aneurin Bevan……Page 24
Xavier Bichat……Page 25
Theodor Billroth……Page 26
George Borrow……Page 27
Jacob Bronowski……Page 28
Jean de La Bruyère……Page 29
Robert Burton……Page 30
James S. Calnan……Page 31
David W. Cathell……Page 32
Charles II……Page 33
Chinese proverbs……Page 34
Cicero……Page 35
Henry, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead……Page 36
Arthur Conan Doyle……Page 37
Bill Cosby……Page 38
Thomas Curling……Page 39
C. D. Darlington……Page 40
Jean Baptiste de la Salle……Page 41
Joseph Dietl……Page 42
Daniel Drake……Page 43
Lawrence Durrell……Page 44
Havelock Ellis……Page 45
Erassistratus……Page 46
Henry Fielding……Page 47
Flemish proverb……Page 48
Frederick the Great……Page 49
J. K. Galbraith……Page 50
William H. George……Page 51
Raanan Gillon……Page 52
Johannes De Gorter……Page 53
Sir William Withey Gull……Page 54
Walton H. Hamilton……Page 55
William Hazlitt……Page 56
’Ben Hecht……Page 57
Charles Judson Herrick……Page 58
Hippocrates……Page 59
Russell Hoban……Page 60
Oliver Wendell Holmes……Page 61
Ed Howe……Page 62
David Hume……Page 63
Sir Robert Hutchison……Page 64
Irish Proverbs……Page 65
Karl Jaspers……Page 66
Samuel Johnson……Page 67
John Keats……Page 68
Sergei S. Korsakoff……Page 69
Guido Lanfranchi c…….Page 70
Desmond Roger Laurence……Page 71
Alan Jay Lerner……Page 72
Lord Lister……Page 73
Warfield Theobald Longcope……Page 74
Martin Luther……Page 75
Des McHale……Page 76
Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides)……Page 77
Marcus Valerius Martialis Martial……Page 78
W. Somerset Maughan……Page 79
Charles H. Mayo……Page 80
Samuel J. Meltzer……Page 81
John of Mirfield……Page 82
Michel de Montaigne……Page 83
Mother Theresa……Page 84
Ogden Nash……Page 85
Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel……Page 86
Sir William Osler……Page 87
Giovanni Papini……Page 88
Louis Pasteur……Page 89
Francis Weld Peabody……Page 90
Heinrich von Pfolspeundt……Page 91
Plato……Page 92
Edgar Allan Poe……Page 93
William Hickling Prescott……Page 94
Proverbs……Page 95
Theodor Reik……Page 96
Roger of Salerno……Page 97
C.W. Rucker……Page 98
School of Salerno……Page 99
R. Schaus……Page 100
David Seegal……Page 101
Seneca……Page 102
George Bernard Shaw……Page 103
Michael B. Shimkin……Page 104
Henry E. Sigerist……Page 105
Logan Pearsall Smith……Page 106
Samuel Southard……Page 107
Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby……Page 108
Robert Louis Stevenson……Page 109
Susruta……Page 110
Tacitus……Page 111
Dylan Thomas……Page 112
Théodore Tronchin……Page 113
Maximilianus Urentius……Page 114
Leonardo da Vinci……Page 115
Peter de Vries……Page 116
David Waters……Page 117
Timberlake Wertenberger……Page 118
Thornton Niven Wilder……Page 119
Virginia Woolf……Page 120
Hans Zinsser……Page 121
Bibliography……Page 122
adaptability……Page 124
ages……Page 125
amour……Page 126
antiquity……Page 127
apple……Page 128
asylum……Page 129
barren……Page 130
bill……Page 131
blood letting……Page 132
bowel……Page 133
bubo……Page 134
Catholic……Page 135
child……Page 136
circumcise……Page 137
colic……Page 138
conceiving……Page 139
control……Page 140
craftsman……Page 141
curing……Page 142
death……Page 143
demeanour……Page 144
die……Page 145
diploma……Page 146
disease……Page 147
disuse……Page 148
Doctor Slop……Page 149
drain……Page 150
drunkenness……Page 151
educated……Page 152
epidemic……Page 153
evolution……Page 154
exploratory……Page 155
families……Page 156
feet……Page 157
foods……Page 158
gastroenterologist……Page 159
God……Page 160
guts……Page 161
heal……Page 162
health……Page 163
heredity……Page 164
hours……Page 165
hurt……Page 166
ignorant……Page 167
immortality……Page 168
infections……Page 169
intellect……Page 170
jargon……Page 171
knife……Page 172
law……Page 173
lies……Page 174
literary……Page 175
love……Page 176
malnutrition……Page 177
manslaughter……Page 178
medical knowledge……Page 179
médicine……Page 180
medicine……Page 181
microbe……Page 182
mind……Page 183
Mongolian……Page 184
names……Page 185
neurologists……Page 186
observation……Page 187
older……Page 188
organisms……Page 189
painful……Page 190
pathologist……Page 191
patients……Page 192
perspiration……Page 193
physician……Page 194
physicians……Page 195
poisons……Page 196
practitioner……Page 197
principles……Page 198
professors……Page 199
psychology……Page 200
quacks……Page 201
rectal……Page 202
research……Page 203
rising……Page 204
science……Page 205
scientific……Page 206
senility……Page 207
sick……Page 208
skin……Page 209
social life……Page 210
special practice……Page 211
stammering……Page 212
stroke……Page 213
sulphur……Page 214
surgical……Page 215
teacher……Page 216
theory……Page 217
tongue……Page 218
treatment……Page 219
unconscious……Page 220
vision……Page 221
weary……Page 222
woman……Page 223
wounds……Page 224
youth……Page 225