British Physician Quotes

Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

On being charged:

Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? [...] I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event.

John Bodkin Adams

Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.

Want of Care does us more Damage than want of Knowledge.

Thomas Fuller (writer)

Cats, indeed, appear to regard human beings who may be domiciled with them rather as part of the furniture than as comrades.

To see the Convulsions, Agonies and Tortures of a poor Fellow-Creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify Luxury, and scratch callous and rank Organs, must require a rocky Heart, and a great Degree of Cruelty and Ferocity.

George Cheyne (physician)

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Alfred Webb-Johnson, 1st Baron Webb-Johnson

Bearing in mind that it is from the vitality of the atmospheric particles that all the mischief arises, it appears that all that is requisite is to dress the wound with some material capable of killing these septic germs, provided that any substance can be found reliable for this purpose, yet not too potent as a caustic.

Tis reason's part
To govern and to guard the heart,
To lull the wayward soul to rest,
When hopes and fears distract the breast;
Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
And steer thy bark through various life.

Nathaniel Cotton

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

Benjamin Ward Richardson

The unprecedented development of science and technology...so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't.