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  • As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

  • Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Jeremiah 8:22.

  • Honoura physicianwiththehonourdueuntohim for the uses whichye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. 108

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus 38:1^2.

  • But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them,They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.But go ye and learnwhat that meaneth,Iwill have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 9:12^13.

  •    When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them,They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 114

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Mark 2:17.

  • And he said unto them,Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke 4:23.

  • Time is the great physician.

    - Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
      Henrietta Temple, bk.6, ch.9.

  • One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

    - Sir William Osler
    Collected in W B Bean (ed) Sir William Osler:  Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).

  • Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

    - Louis Pasteur
    Some Reflections on Science in France, pt.1.

  • Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

    - Matthew Prior
      'The RemedyWorse than the Disease'.

  • Physician art thou?one, all eyes, Philosopher!a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave?

    -William Wordsworth
      'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 5 (published1800).

  • The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

    - Frank Lloyd Wright
      In the NewYorkTimes, 4 Oct.

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