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 I bought an unction of a mountebank,
 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
  Where read more 
 I bought an unction of a mountebank,
 So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,
   Collected from all simples that have virtue
    Under the moon, can save the thing from death
     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
       It may be death. 
 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
 And I must minister the like to you.  
 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
 And I must minister the like to you. 
 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. 
 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. 
 Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut
 Some cureless limb, before in use he put
  His read more 
 Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut
 Some cureless limb, before in use he put
  His violent Engins on the vicious member,
   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,
    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.
   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side read more
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
 There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for 
all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.  
 There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for 
all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. 
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.