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“I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.”

Source: Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature

“BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.”

Body Young Science Humour Graves Physicians Worms Supplies Robbers Undertaker

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.”

Years Art Body Age Needed Medicine Thirty Physicians Thirty Years Mock

Author:Tacitus

“The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains - and many other puzzling physical complaints - are actually caused by trigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body.”

Source: The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief

“We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.”

Soul Body School Masters Higher Treatment Physicians

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.”

Men Body Clothes Flesh Physicians Patches Diseased Cobblers

Book:The Lover's Melancholy

Source: The Lover's Melancholy