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| A broken apothecary a new doctor. | 1 |
| A disobedient patient makes an unfeeling physician. Publius Syrus. | 2 |
| A doctor is one who kills you to-day to prevent you from dying to-morrow. Punch. | 3 |
| A doctor’s child dies not from disease but from medicine. Tamil. | 4 |
| A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. German. | 5 |
| A loquacious doctor is successful. Tamil. | 6 |
| A lucky physician is better than a learned one. German. | 7 |
| A multitude of physicians have destroyed me. (The Emperor Adrian directed these words to be inscribed on his tomb.) | 8 |
| A new doctor, a new grave digger. German. | 9 |
| A physician is a man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. Voltaire. | 10 |
| A physician is an angel when employed, but a devil when one must pay him. German. | 11 |
| A physician is but a consoler of the mind. Petronius Arbiter. | 12 |
| A wise physician is more than armies to the public weal. Pope. | 13 |
| A wise physician never despises a distemper however inconsiderable. Fielding. | 14 |
| A young physician should have three graveyards. German. | 15 |
| An honest physician leaves his patient when he can no longer contribute to his health. Temple. | 16 |
| An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer. Chinese. | 17 |
| Better wait on the cook than the doctor. | 18 |
| Bleed him, purge him and if he dies bury him. Spanish, Dutch. | 19 |
| By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. Shakespeare. | 20 |
| Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician. Hebrew. | 21 |
| Each physician thinks his pills the best. German. | 22 |
| Every man is a fool or a physician at forty. | 23 |
| Every one ought to be his own physician. Modern Greek. | 24 |
| Feed sparingly and defy the physician. | 25 |
| God healeth and the physician hath the thanks. | 26 |
| God is the restorer of health and the physician puts the fee in his pocket. Italian. | 27 |
| He who has suffered is the physician. Modern Greek. | 28 |
| Head cool, feet warm, make the doctor poor. German. | 29 |
| Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand. Dutch. | 30 |
| Honor a physician before thou hast need of him. | 31 |
| Hussars pray for war and the doctors for fever. German. | 32 |
| I die by the help of too many physicians. Alexander the Great. | 33 |
| If doctors fail thee be these three thy doctors: rest, cheerfulness and moderate diet. Latin. | 34 |
| If the doctor cures the sun sees it, but if he kills the earth hides it. Scotch. | 35 |
| If you have a friend who is a physician send him to the house of your enemy. Portuguese. | 36 |
| Little does the sick man consult his own interests who makes his physician his heir. Publius Syrus. | 37 |
| Many funerals discredit a physician. Ben Jonson. | 38 |
| Most physicians as they grow greater in skill grow less in their religion. Massinger. | 39 |
| Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. | 40 |
| New doctor—new church-yard. German. | 41 |
| No good doctor ever takes physic. Italian. | 42 |
| No man is a good physician who has never been sick. Arabian. | 43 |
| No physician is better than three. German. | 44 |
| No physician takes pleasure in the health even of his best friend. Greek Comedian. | 45 |
| One physician is better than two but three are fatal. (Homœpathic globule.) Punch. | 46 |
| Physician, heal thyself. Italian, German. | 47 |
| Physicians alone are permitted to murder with impunity. Petrarch. | 48 |
| Physicians’ faults are covered with earth and rich men’s with money. | 49 |
| That city is in a bad case whose physician has the gout. Hebrew. | 50 |
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| That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heir. | 51 |
| The barber must be young and the physician old. German. | 52 |
| The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. | 53 |
| The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth. Portuguese. | 54 |
| The disobedience of the patient makes the physician seem cruel. | 55 |
| The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. French. | 56 |
| The doctor seldom takes physic. | 57 |
| The earth hides as it takes the physician’s mistakes. Spanish. | 58 |
The first physicians by debauch were made,
Excess began and doth sustain the trade. Dryden. | 59 |
| The four best physicians, Dr. Sobriety, Dr. Jocosity, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Gold. German. | 60 |
| The physician can cure the sick, but he cannot cure the dead. Chinese. | 61 |
| The physician cannot drink the medicine for the patient. German. | 62 |
| Time is the ablest of all mental physicians. Fielding. | 63 |
| When the physician can advise the best the patient is dead. German. | 64 |
| When you call the physician call the judge to make your will. German. | 65 |
| Who has a physician has an executioner. German. | 66 |
| With respect to the gout, the physician is but a lout. | 67 |
| You need not doubt, you are no doctor. | 68 |
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