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 The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
 Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
  [Lat., Dat read more 
 The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
 Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,
   Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.] 
 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. 
 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
 Are grown so catching.  
 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
 Are grown so catching. 
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized read more
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
 But in this point
 All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
  After his patient's death: read more 
 But in this point
 All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
  After his patient's death: the king already
   Hath married the fair lady. 
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
 When taken
 To be well shaken.  
 When taken
 To be well shaken. 
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better read more
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow