Medicine Quotes

Omnis cellula e cellula.

The most frequent and fatal of the diseases which affect the human race, is cholera.

I have discovered a method by which I can produce a state of insensibility to pain during surgical operations.

The stethoscope is an instrument which, by its very nature, is destined to render the greatest services to medicine.

I never thought of myself as a genius. I just worked hard.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The heart is a pump, but it is also a symbol of life, love, and courage.

The heart is a pump, but it is also the seat of the soul. We must never forget that.

A scientist's work is never done. There is always another question, another experiment, another discovery waiting to be made.

Insulin is not a cure, but a treatment. It allows diabetics to live, but it does not remove the underlying cause of the disease.

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It allows the diabetic to live, and to live a useful life, but it is not a cure.

If my efforts have led to the saving of a single human life, then I have not lived in vain.

The hands of the obstetrician and his assistants, which are soiled with cadaveric material, are the carriers of the death-dealing cadaveric particles.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Corpora non agunt nisi fixata.

It is not easy to be a pioneer—but oh, it is glorious!

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

When a wound is treated with carbolic acid, the putrefactive changes are arrested, and the wound heals without suppuration.