English Physician Quotes

Edward Jenner

William Harvey

Erasmus Darwin

Roger Bannister

Thomas Willis

Thomas Sydenham

Mark Akenside

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

The hand of man is in no sense a peculiar organ. It is the foot ennobled: that is all.

Charles Bland Radcliffe

All cats were at first wild. But were at length tamed by the industry of Mankind; it is a Beast of prey, even the tame one, more especially the wild, it being in the opinion of many nothing but a diminutive Lyon.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an r in their name to eat an oyster.

William Butler (physician)

Speak, ye, the pure delight, whose favour'd steps The lamp of science, through the jealous maze Of nature guides, when haply you reveal Her secret honours.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Roger Bannister

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Thomas Sydenham

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

John Jeremiah Bigsby

[The] seminary spirit of minerals hath its proper wombs where it resides, and is like a Prince or Emperour, whose prescripts both Elements and matter must obey; and it is never idle, but always in action, producing and maintaining natural substances, untill they have fulfilled their destiny.

When the patient dies the kidneys may go to the pathologist, but while he lives the urine is ours. It can provide us day by day, month by month, and year by year, with a serial story of the major events going on within the kidney.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

I've dispatc'd, my dear madam, this scrap of a letter, To say that Miss — — is very much better. A Regular Doctor no longer she lacks, And therefore I've sent her a couple of Quacks.

Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

All these Illustrious Worlds, and many more, Which by the Tube Astronomers explore; And Millions which the Glass can ne'er descry, Lost in the Wilds of vast Immensity, Are Suns, are Centers, whose Superior Sway Planets of various Magnitude obey.

Richard Blackmore

On the same terms, therefore, as art is attained to, is all knowledge and science acquired; for as art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known; as that proceeds from the imitation of types or forms so this proceeds from the knowledge of natural things.