Doctors Quotes

Prescription, n. A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

The patient in th’ hands iv a doctor is like a hero in th’ hands iv a story writer. He’s goin’ to suffer a good dale, but he’s goin’ to come out all right in th’ end.

You are now a gladiator; you were formerly an oculist. You did as an ophthalmic surgeon what you now do as a gladiator.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain’t gout.

It’s no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A most instructive case to view The hundred fingered me with hands Chill’d by the blasts of northern lands: Fever at outset had I none I have it, Sir, now you have done.

It is better to prevent disease than to cure it. And Nature, with its divinely-given remedies of fresh air, cleanliness, sunshine, and sensible exercise, is the world’s best doctor.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.