The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

I doubt not that in due time, when the arts are brought to perfection, some means will be found to give a sound head to a man who has none at all.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.