 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 páginas
...quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly. Rushin. AN APOTHECARY. A man who pours drugs of which he knows . little into a body of which he knows less. Voltaire. How TO WRITE A LOVE-LETTER. To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin without knowing... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1868 - 598 páginas
...ON IGNORANT PREACHERS. Do you know Voltaire's definition of a doctor or physician P " One who pours drugs of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." But how often this also might be the definition of a preacher, and how shocking if it should be so... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1869 - 300 páginas
...sneer of Voltaire is not without some truth even in this age, that the physician is one "who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less." Then take the soldier and the sailor. Their professions seem to the young and the thoughtless very... | |
 | 1869 - 308 páginas
..."Do you know," says the author, "Voltaire's definition of a doctor or physician î ' One who pours drugs of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less.' But how often this also might be the definition of a preacher, and how shocking January 1, 1869.] that... | |
 | 1870 - 802 páginas
...called upon to treat, that we may escape the satire of Voltaire, that a phyiscian is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less ; then we must thoroughly know the natural history of disease, that we may not arrogate for remedies... | |
 | 1873 - 626 páginas
...are, other things are more important, and therefore the sarcasm that " the doctor is a man who puts drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less," falls powerless on the scientific follower of medicine. We have, indeed, discovered new drugs, but... | |
 | Hugh Rowley (Hon.) - 1875 - 372 páginas
...ingratitude to breakfast, and premeditated insult to dinner. What is an apothecary ? A man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. What is a stethoscope ? A spy-glass for looking' into people's chests with your ears. What is a muff?... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 550 páginas
...Base ingratitude to breakfast, and premeditated insult to dinner. AN APOTHECA.BY — A man who pours drugs of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. A STETHOSCOPK — A spy-glass for looking into people's chests with your ears. A MUFF. — An article... | |
 | 1895 - 784 páginas
...poor, we have always with us. The most expressive definition of the quack doctor is: "A man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less"; and, while this was applied by its brilliant originator to the entire medical fraternity, it so plainly... | |
 | 1890 - 494 páginas
...and a lady's hand. Tender surgeons make foul wounds. MISCELLANEOUS. A physician is a man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. — French. Do not doubt ; you are no doctor Anon. Most physicians, as they grow greater in skill,... | |
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In one shape or another, the physician still has continued to pour drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. 
