DOCTORS

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1. Honour a physician with the honour due unto him.—Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus

2. Physicians of the highest rank
   (To pay their fees, we need a bank),
   Combine all wisdom, art and skill,
   Science and sense, in Calomel.—Anonymous, Calomel

3. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?—Bible, Jeremiah 8:22

4. But when ill indeed,
   E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.—GEORGE COLMAN, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen

5. I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.—JOHN DONNE, Devotions

6. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
   Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
   The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
   God never made his work for man to mend.—DRYDEN, Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton
   

7. A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.—DUMAS

8. It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.—GEORGE ELIOT, Janet's Repentance

9. Sometimes give your services for nothing, calling to mind a previous benefaction or present satisfaction. And if there be an opportunity of serving one who is a stranger in financial straits, give full assistance to all such. For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art. For some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. And it is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, but also to care for one's own self, so as to observe what is seemly.—HIPPOCRATES, Precepts

10. Trained in the holy art whose lifted shield
    Wards off the darts a never-slumbering foe,
    By hearth and wayside lurking, waits to throw.—O. W. HOLMES, Joseph Warren, M.D.

11. Now when a doctor's patients are perplexed,
    A consultation comes in order next—
    You know what that is? In a certain place
    Meet certain doctors to discuss a case
    And other matters, such as weather, crops,
    Potatoes, pumpkins, lager-beer, and hops.—O. W. HOLMES, Rip Van Winkle, M.D.

12. A doctor shouldn't have to worry about money! That's one disease he's not trained to fight. It either corrupts him or it destroys him.—SIDNEY KINGSLEY, Men in White

13. No physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere money-maker.—PLATO,
    The Republic

14. Who shall decide when doctors disagree?—POPE, Moral Essays
    

15. Doctors make the worst patients.—Proverb
    

16. God cures and the doctor takes the fee.—Proverb
    

17. That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heir.—Proverb
    

18. The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.—Proverb
    

19. Honour a physician before thou hast need of him.—Proverb
    

20. If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.—Proverb
    

21. A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.—Proverb
    

22. Like a physician who can do no good,
    But knows how soon another would have his fee
    Were he to tell the truth.—E. A. ROBINSON, Avon's Harvest
    

23. With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

24. I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.—SHERIDAN, St. Patrick's Day
    

25. Doctors is all swabs.—STEVENSON, Treasure Island
    

26. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation