James Crichton-Browne Quotes

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Every great surgeon, it used to be said, shakes, swears or sweats when he operates.

James Crichton-Browne
"Oh, sir, we made a terrible mistake in the case of that man yesterday! We amputated the wrong leg!" "Ah well," the surgeon replied, complacently, "it's of no consequence, for I have just been looking at the other leg, and it's going to get better."

James Crichton-Browne
A lady of my acquaintance, after a slight operation, suffered from insomnia [that] drugs failed to relieve. Her doctor, however, was very resourceful and on visiting her on the Sunday forenoon said: "I see there's a sermon on the wireless at eight this evening..." There is no soporific better than a dry sermon.

James Crichton-Browne
We follow with awe and thrilling interest the prodigious revelation of our astronomers, but after all, our conception of the Stellar Universe does not go much further than: Twinkle, twinkle little star...

James Crichton-Browne
At a meeting of a medical society, it was said of the common cold that it was three days coming, three days staying, and three days going. A French physician, quoted by Sir St. Clair Thompson, said that the common cold, if left to itself, ran for a fortnight, but if medically treated, lasted only fourteen days.

James Crichton-Browne
The astronomers with all their hypotheses give us no satisfying or abiding conception of the Universe. We are left as bewildered as ever.

James Crichton-Browne
Oleum Jecoris Aselli, or cod-liver oil... had long been used by the Laplanders as a delicacy, in the Shetland Islands in place of butter, and in Holland it had been recommended as a cure for gout and rheumatism, but its first employment as a medical agent amongst us followed on the publication of Dr. Bennett's treatise on the subject.

James Crichton-Browne
If you want fame and fortune, invent a pill.

James Crichton-Browne