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A pill that at the present moment is daily bread to thousands.— DOUGLAS JERROLD — The Catspaw. Act I. Sc. 1.
You behold in me Only a travelling Physician; One of the few who have a mission To cure incurable diseases, Or those that are called so.— LONGFELLOW — Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. I.
And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.— MILTON — Comus. L. 626.
How the Doctor's brow should smile Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.— MOORE — Wreaths for Ministers.
Time is generally the best doctor.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 29.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? Therein the patient Must minister to himself. Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. C.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 40.
How does your patient, doctor? Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 37.
I do remember an apothecary, - And hereabouts he dwells, -whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act V. Sc. 1. L.37.
If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 50.
In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick; Being sick, have in some measure made me well.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 137.
In such a night Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs That did renew old Æson.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 12.
In this point All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic After his patient's death.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 39.
OCCUPATIONS-MERCANTILE. 441 No cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 144.
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 33.
'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 36.
Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 434.
When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. IV. L. 149.
You rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster.— Shakespeare — Tempest. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 138.
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.
Physicians. Mercantile. The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter curl for curl upon that mart.— E. B. BROWNING — Sonnets from the
Portuguese. XIX. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.— BURKE — Speech on the Conciliation of
America. Despatch is the soul of business.— EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Letters.
S. Feb. 5, 1750. This business will never hold water.— COLLEY CIBBER — She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not. Act IV.
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. и. SIR EDWARD COKE-Reports. Vol. V. The Case of Sutton's Hospital. A business with an income at its heels.— COWPER — Retirement. L. 614.