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 Use three Physicians,
 Still-first Dr. Quiet,
  Next Dr. Merry-man
   And Dr. Dyet.  
 Use three Physicians,
 Still-first Dr. Quiet,
  Next Dr. Merry-man
   And Dr. Dyet. 
 One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of 
fellowship with other human beings read more 
 One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of 
fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among 
them. 
 Oh, powerful bacillus,
 With wonder how you fill us,
  Every day!
   While medical detectives,
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 Oh, powerful bacillus,
 With wonder how you fill us,
  Every day!
   While medical detectives,
    With powerful objectives,
     Watch your play. 
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
 A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
 [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]  
 A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
 [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] 
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
 You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
 And what does he, but write a bill,
  Of read more 
 You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
 And what does he, but write a bill,
  Of which you need not read one letter,
   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.
    For if you knew but what you take,
     Though you recover, he must break. 
 So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
 By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
  Bold in the read more 
 So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
 By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
  Bold in the practice of mistaken rules,
   Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. 
 (Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
 (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
  As she is troubled with read more 
 (Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
 (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
   That keep her from her rest.
    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!
     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,
       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
        And with some sweet oblivious antidote
         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff
          Which weighs upon the heart?
           (Doctor:) Therein the patient
            Must minister to himself.
             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!