French Physician Quotes

Nostradamus

François Rabelais

Jean-Martin Charcot

René Laennec

René Guénon

Armand Trousseau

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

If an idea is true, it belongs equally to all who are capable of understanding it.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

François Rabelais

It is urgent and important to legalize universal blood transfusion by immune adoption.

In French: Il est urgent et important de légaliser la transfusion sanguine universelle par adoption immunitaire

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

It behooves those who devote themselves to observation to be impressed by this truth (i.e., that many "facts" grow old) and to realize that the best work is only good in relation to its time and that it awaits another, more exact and more complete.

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

The man who is convinced that there is something to be gained, will always gain something; and in the most beaten paths something new can always be found, provided it be sought for with ardour and intelligence.

Armand Trousseau

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

Never dine with a patient who is in your debt, but get your dinner at an inn, otherwise he will deduct his hospitality from your fee.

Henri de Mondeville

I had not imagined it would be necessary to give a name to such a simple device, but others thought differently. If one wants to give it a name, the most suitable would be "stethoscope."

Theory is good, but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

Jean-Martin Charcot