| 1876 - 816 páginas
...impossible for even a cynic 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.' " Before leaving this lecture, we think it interesting to quote the editorial remarks of the Medical... | |
| 1884 - 278 páginas
...But Voltaire, on another occasion, gave a definition thus: — " Physician — a man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." Even Lord Bacon, earnest as he was in expressing his gratification at the progress made in his own... | |
| 1884 - 440 páginas
...break the rule and enquire, what is a doctor, anyhow ? Voltaire says : " He is one who pours drugs of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." Swift says : "Apollo was the god of physic and the sender of diseases. Both were originally of the... | |
| 1872 - 614 páginas
...called upon to treat, that we may escape the satire of Voltaire, that a physician is one who gives drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less ; then we should thoroughly understand the natural history of disease, that we may not arrogate for... | |
| 1874 - 1144 páginas
...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 lesa ' falls powerless bn the scientific follower of medicine. We have, indeed, discovered new drugs,... | |
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