"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."

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

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

"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."

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

""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."

"For of the most High cometh healing."

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

"Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro."

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

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

"When taken To be well shaken."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket."

"You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?"

"... The first dentist I had for about 30 years, until he finally retired. ... The next three dentist changes all happened within a matter of maybe a year. I heard none of these young dentists owned the practice or could even begin to think of owning it. But they owed someone—and lots, on their s. I would guess in the ballpark of $400k of more. Apparently another out-of-state retired dentist had worked himself into the "investor class" of society, letting my childhood dentist cash out his practice and retire himself. I wondered if the revolving door of young dentists I was experiencing had anything to do with how they were starting out so deep in the hole after —moving to where they could get the best pay, cheapest housing, and shortest commute."

"There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy and there is no Queen of England."

"Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still."

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound."

"The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are, the more it hurts to touch them."

"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."

"Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "If I had not found it hard for my followers or the people, I would have ordered them to clean their teeth with for every prayer.""

"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"

"I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."

"Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond."

"I have the toothache. * * * * * * What! sigh for the toothache?"

"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."

"I will be flesh and blood; For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And make a push at chance and sufferance."

"In the spyght of his tethe."

"Thais has black, Læcania white teeth; what is the reason? Thais has her own, Læcania bought ones."

"I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."

"Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past."

"My curse upon thy venom'd stang, That shoots my tortured gums alang; And through my lugs gies monie a twang, Wi' gnawing vengeance, Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang, Like racking engines!"

"One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living."