| 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,... | |
| 1885 - 450 páginas
...there are too many physicians in Texas, who come under the definition of Voltaire r "A man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." But, ladies and gentlemen, while the legislator has, by his ignorance or prejudice, or by a combination... | |
| 1876 - 718 páginas
...make it impossible for even a cynio to say, with any show of truth, that a physician is "one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less." IMPEOVED DWELLINGS FOE ARTISANS AND LABOURERS. NOT a little information may have been gathered lately... | |
| 1885 - 818 páginas
...pretenders in medicine are quickly detected and exposed. Some one has denned a quack to be a man "who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less;" that is, a man who is uneducated technically — who is unlearned generally — a man who speculates... | |
| 1899 - 530 páginas
...— .SVmXr ,</<•« /v. 10. Our Own Profession Dr. John R. Haynes '*A physician is a man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less."— JV/a/rc. IT. What I Know about Fast Horses . . . Dr. ML Moore "Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour... | |
| Robert Christy - 1887 - 742 páginas
...inscribed on his tomb?) 9. A new doctor, a new grave digger. Ger. 10. A physician is a man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. . Voltaire. 11. A physician is an angel when employed, but a devil when one must pay him. Ger. 12.... | |
| Mrs. Elma (Fraser) Stuart - 1889 - 256 páginas
...of Sir Wm. Jenner's, reminds me of Voltaire's saying, that a physician is a man who pours medicines of .which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. An appalling vision rose up before me of the whole chemist's shop I had, by doctor's orders, so confidingly... | |
| Sir William Tennant Gairdner - 1889 - 456 páginas
...Voltaire's sarcastic phrase— neatly and profitably to put much physic and many complex mixtures, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. But we claim for the Scotch graduate that, in the discipline of the art of medicine, he has, for several... | |
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