Medically speaking : a dictionary of quotations on dentistry, medicine, and nursing

Medically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing contains over 1,500 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. Some are profound, some are witty, some are wise but none are frivolous. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students and professionals and the wider public interested in who has said what on medicine. The book contains black-and-white illustrations. This is a book of quotations on medicine, dentistry, and nursing. It contains over 1500 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here the reader will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. Some are profound, some are witty, some are wise, but none are frivolous. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for pleasure, or used as a handy reference by students, professionals, and the wider public interested in who has said what about medicine. Medically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Dentistry, Medicine and Nursing......Page 2 Table of Contents......Page 8 PREFACE......Page 14 ABDOMEN......Page 17 ABORTION......Page 18 ACUPUNCTURE......Page 20 ADHESIVE......Page 21 ALLERGY......Page 22 AMNESIA......Page 23 AMPUTATION......Page 24 ANATOMISTS......Page 25 ANATOMY......Page 26 ANESTHESIA......Page 29 ANESTHETIST......Page 31 ANTIBIOTIC......Page 32 APOTHECARY......Page 33 APPENDIX......Page 35 ARTERY......Page 36 BACK......Page 37 BILL......Page 38 BIRTH CONTROL......Page 39 BLINDNESS......Page 41 BLOOD......Page 42 BLOOD PRESSURE......Page 44 BODY......Page 45 BODY-SNATCHER......Page 47 BRAIN......Page 48 CANCER......Page 50 CARE......Page 52 CARTILAGE......Page 53 CASTOR OIL......Page 54 CAVITY......Page 55 CHEMISTRY......Page 56 CHILDBIRTH......Page 58 CHOLERA......Page 59 CIRCUMCISION......Page 60 COD LIVER OIL......Page 62 COLDS......Page 63 COMMON SENSE......Page 65 CONSULTATION......Page 67 CONTAGIOUS......Page 68 CONTRACEPTIVE......Page 69 CONVALESCENCE......Page 71 COUGH......Page 72 CURE......Page 73 CURIOSITY......Page 78 DEATH......Page 79 DENTAL......Page 85 DENTIST......Page 86 DERMATOLOGIST......Page 93 DIAGNOSIS......Page 95 DIAGNOSTICIAN......Page 99 DIAPHRAGM......Page 100 DIET......Page 101 DIGESTION......Page 103 DISCHARGE......Page 104 DISEASE......Page 105 DISINFECTANT......Page 113 DISSECTION......Page 114 DOCTOR......Page 115 DRAFT......Page 142 DRUGGIST......Page 143 DRUGS......Page 144 EAR WAX......Page 145 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM......Page 146 ENEMA......Page 147 EPIDEMIC......Page 148 EPIDERMIS......Page 149 ERROR......Page 150 ESOPHAGUS......Page 151 EXAMINATION......Page 152 EXPERIENCE......Page 153 EXPERIMENT......Page 156 FACT......Page 158 FEE......Page 160 FEVER......Page 163 FLU......Page 165 GALL BLADDER......Page 166 GENERAL PRACTITIONER......Page 167 GERM PLASM......Page 168 GOD......Page 169 GOUT......Page 170 GYNECOLOGY......Page 171 HEADACHE......Page 172 HEALING......Page 173 HEALTH......Page 175 HEART......Page 180 HIPPOCRATIC OATH......Page 182 HIVES......Page 183 HOSPITAL......Page 184 HYPOCHONDRIAC......Page 187 HYPODERMIC NEEDLE......Page 190 ILL......Page 191 ILLNESS......Page 193 INJURY......Page 195 INSOMNIAC......Page 196 INTERNIST......Page 197 INTESTINE......Page 198 INVALID......Page 199 IT......Page 200 JOURNALS......Page 201 KIDNEY......Page 202 KING’S EVIL......Page 204 LIFE......Page 205 LIVER......Page 206 LUNGS......Page 207 MALADY......Page 208 MAL DE MER......Page 209 MAN......Page 210 MEASLES......Page 212 MEDICAL......Page 213 MEDICAL MNEMONICS......Page 216 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY......Page 217 MEDICINE......Page 219 MENSTRUATION......Page 232 MICROBES......Page 233 MICROSCOPE......Page 235 NAUSEA......Page 236 NERVE......Page 237 NOUNS OF MULTITUDE......Page 238 NURSE......Page 240 NURSE’S PRAYER......Page 245 NUTRITION......Page 247 OBSERVATION......Page 249 OINTMENT......Page 250 OPERATION......Page 251 OPINIONS......Page 252 ORAL HYGIENE......Page 253 PAIN......Page 254 PARASITE......Page 256 PATIENTS......Page 257 PHARMACIST......Page 262 PHARMACY......Page 263 PHYSIC......Page 264 PHYSICAL......Page 267 PHYSICIAN......Page 268 PHYSIOLOGIST......Page 297 PHYSIOLOGY......Page 298 PILL......Page 299 PIMPLE......Page 301 PMS......Page 302 PNEUMONIA......Page 303 PRAYER......Page 304 PRESCRIPTION......Page 307 PROGNOSIS......Page 309 PROTEIN......Page 310 QUACK......Page 311 RADIOLOGIST......Page 314 RAPPORT......Page 315 RECOVERY......Page 316 REMEDY......Page 317 REMEDY: CHICKEN POX......Page 318 REMEDY: FAINTING......Page 319 REMEDY: MENSES......Page 320 REMEDY: WARTS......Page 321 RESEARCH......Page 322 REST......Page 324 RESUSCITATE......Page 325 RHEUMATISM......Page 326 SALVE......Page 327 SCIENCE......Page 328 SICK......Page 332 SICK BED......Page 335 SICKNESS......Page 336 SINUS......Page 340 SKELETON......Page 341 SKIN......Page 342 SNEEZE......Page 343 SORE THROAT......Page 345 SORES......Page 346 SPECIALIST......Page 347 SPINE......Page 349 STATISTICS......Page 350 STETHOSCOPE......Page 351 STOMACH......Page 352 STOOLS......Page 353 SURGEON......Page 355 SURGERY......Page 362 SURGICAL......Page 364 SYMPTOM......Page 365 TEACHING......Page 366 TEETH......Page 368 THEORY......Page 373 TONGUE DEPRESSOR......Page 374 TOOTHACHE......Page 375 TRANQUILIZERS......Page 380 TREATMENT......Page 381 TRICHINOSIS......Page 383 TRUTH......Page 384 TUBERCULOSIS......Page 385 TUMOR......Page 386 URINALYSIS......Page 387 VACCINATION......Page 388 VIRUS......Page 389 X-RAYS......Page 390 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 392 PERMISSIONS......Page 418 Medically Speaking is a book of quotations on medicine, dentistry and nursing. It contains over 1500 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. Some are profound, some are witty, some are wise but none are frivolous. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure.This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students and professionals and the wider public interested in who has said what on medicine.