 | Medicine - 1893 - 654 pages
...surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. A physician is a man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. — Practice. 536 537 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT FOR MYO-FIBROMA OF THE UTERUS.... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...was thereby afforded to the dignity of medical science. The draught failed to relieve the sufferer, and he was quieted by the great soother of all evils....concert, no longer astound the bystanders whilst the theriake is preparing. Vipers are not seethed to restore the health of the fading beauty. The bezoar... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 600 pages
...our hearts, and many of us on our faces. Doctor. — According to Voltaire, one whose business it is to pour drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. Ditch. — A place in which those who have taken too much wine are apt to take a little water. Dog.... | |
 | 1843 - 414 pages
...fit to be applied, and to escape the censure of Voltaire, who says, " An apothecary is one who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." While Mrs. Bertram was kept in durance-vile by her injudicious kinswoman, — her judicious friend,... | |
 | 318 pages
...That which all of us wear on our hearts, and many of us on our face. DOCTOR. — One whose business is to pour drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less. DITCH. — A place in which those who have taken too much wine are apt to take a little water. DOZE... | |
 | William Whitty Hall - 1854 - 396 pages
...him not to waste his time, and money, and health, in blind efforts to remove them, by taking stuff of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less ! but to go to a man of respectability, of standing and experience — one in whom he has confidence... | |
 | George Allarton - 1856 - 168 pages
...guere dans un corps qu'il ne connait pas ;" which in English means "A man clothed in black, who puts drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows nothing." His especial attributes, according to Hufland, are " affability — gentleness — modesty... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1860 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | John Henry Lukis - 1862 - 274 pages
...to throw 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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
