...it off, what then ? I don't go so far as Voltaire, who defined a physician as one who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. The modern doctor knows a great deal more of chemistry and physiology than his predecessors knew in...

...strongest bond of peaceful, well-regulated society." VOLTAIRE says, " A physician is one who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less " WOMAN. " WOMEN govern us. Let us render them perfect. The more they are enlightened, so much the...

...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 ; one...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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?...

...himself obnoxious to Voltaire's epigram:— his " practice of medicine is the art of introducing drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less; " so likewise the man who ventures an opinion upon a hypothecated case of insanity is likely to bring...