Medicine

", n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway."

"O Maruts holding Barhiṣa (ritual grass)! What medicine is in Sindhu, in Asiknī, in the Seas, and the Mountains? Finding them, please bring them with you. Please help us to cure the afflicted and make what has gone wrong in them, right again!"

"is but a small part of physic; medical cannot be separated from moral science without reciprocal and essential mutilation."

"Medicus carat, Natura sanat morbus."

"A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

"Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes."

"'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case can be no worse, The desp'rat'st is the wisest course."

"Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore, Replete with strange hermetic powder That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder."

"This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer In health—when ill, we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer."

"Dios que dá la llaga, dá la medicina."

"Ægri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est."

"When taken To be well shaken."

"Take a little rum The less you take the better, Pour it in the lakes Of Wener or of Wetter. Dip a spoonful out And mind you don't get groggy, Pour it in the lake Of Winnipissiogie. * Stir the mixture well Lest it prove inferior, Then put half a drop Into Lake Superior. Every other day Take a drop in water, You'll be better soon Or at least you oughter."

"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."

"So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill."

"Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part."

"For of the most High cometh healing."

"One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores."

"A single doctor like a sculler plies, And all his art and all his physic tries; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Conduct you soonest to the Stygian shores."

""Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow."

"Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us, Every day! While medical detectives, With powerful objectives, Watch your play."

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."

"A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands."

"Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano."

"You behold in me Only a travelling Physician; One of the few who have a mission To cure incurable diseases, Or those that are called so."

"Physician, heal thyself."

"And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties."

"Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.""

"How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile."

"Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro."

"Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio."

"I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixty years, appealed to a physician."

"So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools."

"Learn from the beasts the physic of the field."

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"

"Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend."

"You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill, Of which you need not read one letter, The worse the scrawl, the dose the better. For if you knew but what you take, Though you recover, he must break."

"But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."

"Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth."

"Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet."

"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too."

"No cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death."

"In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick; Being sick, have in some measure made me well."

"'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching."

"In this point All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic After his patient's death."

"Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel."

"How does your patient, doctor? Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies."

"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?"

"Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."

"If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again."

"In such a night Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs That did renew old Æson."

"I do remember an apothecary,— And hereabouts he dwells,—whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show."

"You rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster."

"Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob."

"When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills."

"Crudelem medicum intemperans æger facit."

"He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies."

"Ægrescitque medendo."

"But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor."