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When taken
To be well shaken.
When taken
To be well shaken.
You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
[Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
[Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic read more
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk
to the bottom of the sea, it read more
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.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a
major operation by a surgeon.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a
major operation by a surgeon.
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
For by his side a pouch he wore,
Replete with strange read more
Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
For by his side a pouch he wore,
Replete with strange hermetic powder
That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder.
