Peter McDonald

Cover Page 1 Title Page 4 ISBN 0192630474 5 Dedication 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 10 Contents 12 How to Use the Dictionary 13 The Index 13 Quotations 14 A 14 William O.Abbot 14 John Abernethy 14 Sir Adolf Abrams 14 Goodman Ace 14 Samuel Hopkins Adams 14 Thomas Addis 14 Joseph Addison 14 Francis Heed Adler 14 African proverbs 15 Fuller Albright 15 Alexander (III) the Great of Macedon 15 Alexander of Tralles 15 Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt 15 Woody Allen 15 American proverbs 15 Henri Amiel 15 John Allan Dalrymple Anderson 15 Sir Christopher Andrews 16 Professor ‘Tommy’ Annandale 16 Anonymous 16 Antiphanes 18 John Apley 18 Apocrypha 18 Arabic proverbs 18 John Arbuthnot 19 Aretaeus of Cappadocia 19 Aristophanes 19 Aristotle 19 John Armstrong 19 Matthew Arnold 19 Ar-Rumi 19 Antonin Artaud 19 Asclepiades 19 Richard Asher 20 Isaac Asimov 20 Dana W.Atchley 20 W. H. Auden 20 Leopold Auenbrugger 20 St.Augustine 20 Marcus Aurelius 20 Jane Austen 20 Avicenna 20 Washington Ayer 20 Pam Ayres 21 B 21 Sir Francis Bacon 21 Walter Bagehot 21 Giorgio Baglivi 21 Mary Baines 21 Jacob Balde c. 21 Honoré de Balzac 21 Alvan L. Barach 21 Asaph ben Barachiah 22 Sam Bardell 22 Christian Barnard 22 Norman Barrett 22 Sir James Matthew Barrie 22 John Barrymore 22 Elisha Bartlett 22 Bernard Baruch 22 Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (‘Peter Harding’) 22 St. Basil the Great c. 22 Charles Baudelaire 22 Richard Baxter 22 Sir William Maddock Bayliss 22 William B. Bean 22 G. H. Beaton 22 Lindsey E. Beaton 23 Pierre de Beaumarchais 23 William Beaumont 23 Simone de Beauvoir 23 Samuel Becket 23 George Howard Bell 23 John Bell 23 Peter Bell 23 Nicholas de Belleville 23 Hilaire Belloc 23 Stephen Vincent Benét 23 Alan Bennet 23 Billy Bennett 23 Jeremy Bentham 23 Bernard Berenson 24 Frank M. Berger 24 Claude Bernard 24 Jeffrey Bernard 24 Aneurin Bevan 24 W. I. B. Beveridge 25 Gareth Beynon 25 The Bible 25 Xavier Bichat 25 August Bier 26 Ambrose Bierce 26 Jacob Bigelow 26 Hermann M. Biggs 26 John Shaw Billings 26 Theodor Billroth 26 Kenneth T. Bird 27 Hermann Boerhaave 27 Prince Otto von Bismarck 27 Sir William Blackstone 27 William Blake 27 Curtis Bok 27 Sir John Bland-Sutton 27 Book of Common Prayer 27 Arthur L. Bloomfield 27 Andrew Boorde 27 Giovanni Boccaccio 27 George Borrow 27 Keith Botsford 28 William Boyd 28 Edward Hickling Bradford 28 A. C. Bradley 28 Brahmanic saying 28 W. Russell, Lord Brain 28 William Cooper Brann 28 Nicholas Breton 28 Richard Bright 28 Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 28 Edouard Brissaud 28 Paul Broca 28 A. Gerard Brom 28 Jacob Bronowski 28 Charles Brook 29 Michael Brook 29 François Joseph Victor Broussais 29 J. Howard Brown 29 John Brown 29 Sir Dennis Browne 29 Sir Thomas Browne 29 Philip A. Bruce 29 Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke 29 Jean de La Bruyère 29 Sir James Bryce 30 William Buchan 30 Pearl Buck 30 Henry Thomas Buckle 30 Henry Lytton Bulwer 30 Edward Bulwer-Lytton 30 (‘Owen Meredith’) 30 John Bunyan 30 Anthony Burgess 30 Edmund Burke 30 Dennis Burkitt 30 Robert Burton 30 George W. Bush 31 Nicholas Murray Butler 31 Samuel Butler 31 George Gordon Lord Byron 31 C 31 Pierre Cabanis 31 Richard Clarke Cabot 31 William Cadogan 31 John Caffey 31 Sir Hugh Cairns 31 Joseph A. Califano Jr 31 James S. Calnan 31 Rohan Candappa 32 A. Benson Cannon 32 Walter Bradford Cannon 32 Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin) 32 Thomas Carlyle 32 Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) 32 William H. Carruth 32 Malcolm Carruthers 32 Alice Cary 32 William B. Castle 32 Catalan proverb 32 David W. Cathell 32 Catherine II 33 Dionysius Cato 33 Benvenuto Cellini 33 Aulus Cornelius Celsus 33 Miguel de Cervantes 33 Nicolas Chamfort 33 Chang Ch’ao 33 Charles V. Chapin 33 Jean Martin Charcot 33 Charles II 33 Charles, Prince of Wales 34 Guy de Chauliac 34 Anton Chekhov 34 Chen Jen 34 Earl of Chesterfield 34 G. K. Chesterton 34 Sir Watson Cheyne 34 Chinese proverbs 34 Ch’in Yueh-jen 35 W. W. Chipman 35 A. B. Christie 35 Christina of Sweden 35 St. John Chrysostom 35 Chu Hui Weng 35 Charles Churchill 35 Sir Winston Churchill 35 Cicero 35 Alonzo Clark 36 Michael Clark 36 Sir Stanley Clayton 36 Logan Clendening 36 Arthur Hugh Clough 36 John of Clyn 36 Irvin S. Cobb 36 Forrester Cockburn 36 Jean Baptiste Coffinhal-Dubail 36 Thomas Cogan 36 Henry, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead 36 Warren H. Cole 37 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 37 Abraham Colles 37 Richard Collier 37 John Churton Collins 37 Mortimer Collins 37 Charles Caleb Colton 37 Andrew Combe 37 Alex Comfort 37 Auguste Comte 37 Arthur Conan Doyle 37 Confucius 38 Cyril Connolly 38 Mike Connolly? 38 Sir Edward Cook 38 Robin Coombs 38 Sir Astley Paston Cooper 38 Sir (Vincent) Zachary Cope 38 Charles T. Copeland 38 Robert Copeland 38 Alan Coren 38 Pierre Corneille 38 Jean Nicolas Corvisart 38 Bill Cosby 38 Nathaniel Cotton 39 Émile Coué 39 Abraham Cowley 39 William Cowper 39 John Redman Coxe 39 Creole proverb 39 Sir James Crichton-Brown 39 Francis H. C. Crick 39 Quentin Crisp 39 Colin Cromar 39 A. J. Cronin 39 William Cullen 39 Bishop Richard Cumberland 39 Marie Curie 39 Thomas Curling 39 Edwina Currie 40 George William Curtis 40 Harvey Cushing 40 Baron Georges Cuvier 40 Czech proverb 40 D 40 A. S. Daar 40 J. Chalmers Da Costa 40 Kennedy Dalziel 40 Danish proverb 40 C. D. Darlington 40 Clarence Darrow 41 Charles Darwin 41 Sir Francis Darwin 41 W. H. Davies 41 Elmer Davis 41 Professor John Davis 41 Kingsley Davis 41 Sir Humphry Davy 41 John Blair Deaver 41 Daniel Defoe 41 Mervyn Deitel 41 Thomas Dekker 41 Jean Baptiste de la Salle 41 Campbell Greig De Morgan 42 Jerry Dennis 42 Joyce Dennys 42 Chauncey Depew 42 Lord Devlin 42 John Dewey 42 John Diamond 42 Charles Dickens 42 Niall Dickson 42 Denis Diderot 42 Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach 42 Joseph Dietl 42 Diphilus 43 Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield 43 J. Frank Dobie 43 Alphonse Raymond Dochez 43 William Dock 43 Ian Dodds-Smith 43 John Donne 43 Colin Douglas 43 John Langdon Down 43 Len Doyal 43 Daniel Drake 43 Michael Drayton 44 John Dryden 44 Louis I. Dublin 44 Rene J. Dubos 44 Louis Adolphus Duhring 44 Alexandre Dumas 44 Dr Dunlop 44 Finley Peter Dunne (‘Mr Dooley’) 44 Baron Guillaume Dupuytren 44 Lawrence Durrell 44 Dutch proverbs 45 E 45 Hermann Ebbinghaus 45 Mary Baker Eddy 45 Thomas Alva Edison 45 Jonathan Edwards 45 Paul Ehrlich 45 Albert Einstein 45 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans Cross) 45 T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) 45 Havelock Ellis 45 Haven Emerson 46 Ralph Waldo Emerson 46 English proverbs 46 English sailors’ proverb 46 Ennius 46 Epicurus 46 Erassistratus 46 Erik Erikson 47 Henri Estienne 47 Euripides 47 Sir Grimley Evans 47 Margaret Jane Evans 47 William M. Evarts 47 F 47 Noah D. Fabricant 47 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 47 Nathaniel Faxon 47 Jean Fernel 47 Magister Ferrarius 47 Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben 47 Henry Fielding 47 W. C. Fields 48 Lactantius Firmianus 48 Martin H. Fischer 48 Geoffrey Fisher 48 John Fiske 48 Reginald Heber Fitz 48 F. Scott Fitzgerald 48 Sir Alexander Fleming 48 Flemish proverb 48 Abraham Flexner 49 John Florio 49 Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle 49 Sir John Forbes 49 Henry Ford 49 Nicholas J. Fox 49 Sir Theodore Fox 49 Johann Peter Frank 49 Benjamin Franklin 49 Girolamo Frascastoro 49 Frederick the Great 49 French proverbs 50 Philip Freneau 50 Sigmund Freud 50 Sir Alfred Fripp 50 Erich Fromm 50 Robert Frost 50 James Anthony Froude 50 Thomas Fuller 50 G 50 J. H. Gaddum 50 Gaelic proverb 50 J. K. Galbraith 50 Galen 51 Sir Francis Galton 51 Mahatma Gandhi 51 James A. Garfield 51 Fielding H. Garrison 51 Sir Samuel Garth 51 John Gay 51 Sir Auckland Geddes 51 General Medical Council, UK 51 M. C. Geokas 51 William H. George 51 German law 52 German proverbs 52 Edward Gibbon 52 Kahlil Gibran 52 André Gide 52 W. Gill Wylie 52 Muriel Gillick 52 Sir William S. Gilbert 52 Paul Gill 52 Sir Harold Gillies 52 Raanan Gillon 52 Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman 53 Daniel Coit Gilman 53 Thomas Gisborne 53 William E. Gladstone 53 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 53 Oliver St. John Gogarty 53 Oliver Goldsmith 53 Samuel Goldwyn 53 Edward Goodman 53 Mervyn H. Gordon 53 Johannes De Gorter 53 Remy de Gourmont 54 William Gilbert (‘W. G.’) Grace 54 Evarts Ambrose Graham 54 Harvey Graham 54 Robert James Graves 54 Greek proverb 54 Major Greenwood 54 Germaine Greer 54 Alan Gregg 54 James Gregory 54 Sir John Grugeon 54 Arthur Guiterman 54 Sir William Withey Gull 54 Robert Marcus Gunn 55 Thomas Guthrie 55 H 55 Ernst Haeckel 55 Heinrich Haeser 55 Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann 55 J. B. S. Haldane 55 Sir Peter Hall 55 John Halle 55 William Stewart Halsted 55 Alexander Hamilton 55 Walton H. Hamilton 55 Hammurabi 56 Garrett Hardin 56 George Harley 56 George T. Harrell 56 William Harvey 56 Lady Flora Hastings 56 Lord Havers 56 Nathaniel Hawthorne 56 Sir John Hawton 56 William Hay 56 William Hazlitt 56 Ali ibn-Hazm 57 R. J. (‘Bill’) Heald 57 William Heberden 57 Hebrew proverbs 57 ’Ben Hecht 57 Lorenz Heister 58 Hermann von Helmholtz 58 Burton Jesse Hendrick 58 John Hendy 58 William Ernest Henley 58 Henry IV 58 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 58 Sir Alan Patrick Herbert 58 George Herbert 58 Oliver Herford 58 Herodotus 58 Don Herold 58 Herophilus 58 Charles Judson Herrick 58 James B. Herrick 59 Robert Herrick 59 Christian A. Herter 59 Sir Austin Bradford Hill 59 Wayne Hill 59 William Hillary 59 Hindu proverbs 59 John M. Hinton 59 Hippocrates 59 Russell Hoban 60 Eric Hodgins 61 Stanley O. Hoerr 61 Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein 61 Friederich Hoffman 61 Oliver Wendell Holmes 61 John Homans 62 Homer 62 Earnest Albert Hooton 62 James Hope 62 Johns Hopkins 62 Horace 62 Lord Horder 62 Pio de Rio Hortega 62 Russel John Howard 62 Ed Howe 62 Huai-nan Tze (Liu An) died 63 Huang Ti c. 63 Elbert G. Hubbard 63 Frank (Kin) Hubbard 63 Henry Huchard 63 Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland 63 Patricia Hughes 63 Victor Hugo 63 David Hume 63 William Humphreys 64 Sir George Murray Humphry 64 Hunayn ibd Ishaq 64 Geoffrey Hunt 64 James Henry Leigh Hunt 64 James M. Hunter 64 John Hunter 64 William Hunter 64 Sir Robert Hutchison 64 Sir Julian Huxley 65 Thomas Huxley 65 I 65 Félix Martí-Ibáñez 65 Henrik Ibsen 65 Ivan Illich 65 Indian proverbs 65 Indian (Kashmiri) proverb 65 Indian (Tamil) proverbs 65 William Ralph Inge 65 Robert G. Ingersoll 65 Dwight J. Ingle 65 Irish Proverbs 65 St. Isidore of Seville 66 Italian proverbs 66 J 66 Chevalier Jackson 66 Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson 66 Mary Corinna Puttnam Jacobi 66 Werner Jaeger 66 James I 66 William James 66 Pierre Marie Janet 66 Japanese proverbs 66 Randall Jarrell 66 DeForest Clinton Jarvis 66 Karl Jaspers 66 Thomas Jefferson 67 Edward Jenner 67 Sir William Jenner 67 Jerome K. Jerome 67 William Stanley Jevons 67 Jewish proverb 67 John of Arderne 67 Sir Elton John 67 Samuel Johnson 67 Peter F. Jones 68 Ben Jonson 68 Isaac Judaeus 68 D. G. Julian 68 C. G. Jung 68 Ernst Jünger 68 Juvenal 68 K 68 Kahun Papyrus 68 Harold A. Kaminetzky 68 Immanuel Kant 68 Helen Singer Kaplan 68 John Keats 68 Harry Keen 69 John F. Kennedy 69 Jean Kerr 69 Ellen Key 69 Rev Martin Luther King 69 Rudyard Kipling 69 John H. Knowles 69 Theodor Kocher 69 Sergei S. Korsakoff 69 Alfred Korzyybski 70 Frederick James Kottke 70 Karl Kraus 70 Jiddhu Krishnamurti 70 Joseph Wood Krutch 70 Maggie Kuhn 70 L 70 René Laënnec 70 Jean de La Fontaine 70 R. D. Laing 70 Charles Lamb 70 William Lamb, Lord Melbourne 70 Guido Lanfranchi c. 70 Andrew Lang 71 Bernard von Langenbeck 71 Lâo-tzu 71 Ring Lardner Jr 71 Louis Cesare Lasagna 71 Peter Mere Latham 71 Latin proverbs 71 Desmond Roger Laurence 71 Antoine Lavoisier 72 Nigel Lawson 72 Stephen B. Leacock 72 Chauncey D. Leake 72 Fran Lebowitz 72 Stanislaw Lec 72 John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) 72 W. E. H. Lecky 72 James Le Fanu 72 Legal phrases 72 Edwin P. Lehman 72 Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz 72 Nikolai Lenin 72 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 72 René Leriche 72 Alan Jay Lerner 72 Alain René Lesage 73 Gotthold Lessing 73 John Coatley Lettsom 73 Sir Thomas Lewis 73 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 73 Baron Justus yon Liebig 73 R. J. Lilford 73 Chris Lillehei 73 Abraham Lincoln 73 James Lind 73 Art Linklater 73 Lin Yutang 73 John Lister 73 Lord Lister 73 Robert Liston 74 James Little 74 Liu Kung Cho 74 Derek Llewellyn-Jones 74 David Lloyd George 74 Percy Lockhart Mummery 74 Robert F. Loeb 74 Oxyrhynchus Logia (Agrapha) 74 Warfield Theobald Longcope 74 Tony Lopez 75 Konrad Lorenz 75 Professor A. Ross Lorimer 75 Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis 75 Richard Lower 75 Sir John Lubbock, Baron Avebury 75 Lu Chi 75 Lucretius c. 75 Emil Ludwig 75 Martin Luther 75 John Lyly 76 M 76 Douglas MacArthur 76 Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay 76 John L. McClenahan 76 Sir William MacCormac 76 Thomas McCrae 76 Benjamin McCready 76 Edwin Carleton MacDowell 76 Ephraim McDowell 76 Sir William Macewen 76 Bernard MacFadden 76 Malcolm McFarlane 76 A. McGehee Harvey 76 Ernst Mach 76 Des McHale 76 Sir James Mackenzie 77 Sir Morell Mackenzie 77 Henry McMurtie 77 Sir Andrew MacPhail 77 Sir John Royden Maddox 77 François Magendie 77 Bill Maher 77 Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides) 77 Ralph Herman Major 78 J. D. Malcolm 78 Nelson Mandela 78 Gerald L. Mandell 78 Margurite Lucy Manfreda 78 Marcus Manilius 78 Thomas Mann 78 Peter Marcello 78 Antoine B. J. Marfan 78 Don Marquis 78 John Marston 78 Marcus Valerius Martialis Martial 78 Everett Dean Martin 79 Louis Martinet 79 Karl F. H. Marx 79 Nathan Masor 79 William H. Masters 79 Virginia E. Johnson 79 Rudolph Matas 79 Henry Maudsley 79 W. Somerset Maughan 79 Andre Maurois 80 Gavin Maxwell 80 Tom G. Mayer 80 Charles H. Mayo 80 William J. Mayo 81 John Mayow 81 James Howard Means 81 Sir Peter Medawar 81 Medieval maxim 81 Ed Meese 81 Samuel J. Meltzer 81 Giles Ménage 82 Menander 82 H. L. Mencken 82 George Meredith 82 Ilya Metchnikoff 82 Alan Milburn 82 John Stuart Mill 82 Perry H. Millard 82 C. Jeff Miller 82 Spike Milligan 82 John Milton 82 ‘Minerva’ 82 George R. Minot 82 John of Mirfield 82 S.Weir Mitchell 83 Moli`ere 83 Henri de Mondeville 83 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 83 Michel de Montaigne 83 Montenegrin proverb 84 Montesquieu 84 Sir Thomas More 84 Jeanne Moreau 84 Giovanni Battista Morgagni 84 Barbara Morgan 84 Maldwyn Morgan 84 M. J. Moroney 84 Desmond Morris 84 Sir Peter Morris 84 Robert Tuttle Morris 84 Rutherford Morrison 84 William T. Morton 84 William Moss 84 Mother Theresa 84 Sir Frederick Walker Mott 85 T. J. Mott 85 Sir Berkeley Moynihan 85 Malcolm Muggeridge 85 Johannes Müller 85 John Benjamin Murphy 85 N 85 Vladimir Nabokov 85 Napoleon I (Bonarparte) 85 Ogden Nash 85 Henry Needler 86 Horatio, Lord Nelson 86 John Henry, Cardinal Newman 86 Frank Nicholson 86 Sir Harold Nicholson 86 Delbert H. Nickson 86 Friedrich Nietzsche 86 Florence Nightingale 86 Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel 86 O 87 Wilfrid G. Oakley 87 Julien Offray de la Mettrie 87 Sir Heneage Ogilvie 87 Joe Orton 87 George Orwell (Eric Blair) 87 Sir William Osler 87 Sir Fielding Ould 88 Ovid 88 Robert Owen 88 P 88 Frank Kittredge Paddock 88 Sir James Paget 88 Stephen Paget 88 Walter Lincoln Palmer 88 Lord Palmerston 88 Giovanni Papini 88 Paracelsus 89 Ambroise Paré 89 Dorothy Parker 89 James Parkinson 89 Samuel Parr 89 Caleb Parry 89 Pashto proverb 89 Boris Pasternak 89 Louis Pasteur 89 Bachya ben Joseph ibn Pauda 90 Paul of Aegina 90 Cesare Pavese 90 Ivan Pavlov 90 Frank Payne 90 Francis Weld Peabody 90 John Pearson 91 Charles Péguy 91 Wilder Penfield 91 R. G. Penn 91 William Penn 91 Samuel Pepys 91 Thomas Percival 91 Meyer A. Perlstein 91 Persian proverb 91 Aulus Flaccus Persius 91 Jo Peters 91 John Punnett Peters 91 Petrarch 91 Arbiter Petronius 91 Heinrich von Pfolspeundt 91 Thomas Phaer 92 Philemon ? 92 Melanie Phillips 92 S. F. Phillips 92 Ludwig Pick 92 Sir George Pickering 92 Pien Ch’iao c. 92 Pindar 92 Phillipe Pinel 92 Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Henry Thrale) 92 Walter B. Pitkin 92 Plato 92 Sir Harry Platt 93 Lord Platt 93 Titus Maccius Plautus 93 Pliny the elder 93 Pliny the younger 93 Plutarch 93 Edgar Allan Poe 93 Michael Polanyi 94 Polish proverbs 94 Allyson M. Pollock 94 Alexander Pope 94 Hans Popper 94 Karl R. Popper 94 Roy Porter 94 Sir Percivall Pott 94 Anthony Powell 94 Sir Douglas Powell 94 Simon Powis 94 Winthrop Mackworth Praed 94 William Hickling Prescott 94 Matthew Prior 95 Henry S. Pritchett 95 Marcel Proust 95 Proverbs 95 James J. Putnam 96 Q 96 Françis Quarles 96 Quintilian 96 R 96 François Rabelais 96 Bernardino Ramazzini 96 Dr Virginia Ramirez de Barquero 96 Santiago Ramón y Cajal 96 Svend Ranulf 96 Louis-Antoine Ranvier 96 Isidor S. Ravdin 96 John Ray 96 Theodor Reik 96 Paul Reznikoff 97 Rhazes (abu-Bakr Muhammed ibn-Zakariya al Razi) 97 Jonathan E. Rhoads 97 Dickinson W. Richards 97 Jean Paul Richter 97 David Riesman 97 Sydney Ringer 97 Isabel P. Robinault 97 Duc François de la Rochefoucauld 97 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 97 Roger of Salerno 97 Karl von Rokitansky 98 Humphrey Rolleston 98 James Harvey Robinson 98 Jules Romains 98 Romanian proverb 98 Franklin D. Roosevelt 98 Eucharius Roslin 98 George G. Ross 98 Sir Ronald Ross 98 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 98 Francis Peyton Rous 98 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 98 Joseph Roux 98 C.W. Rucker 98 Rufus of Ephesus 99 Benjamin Rush 99 John Ruskin 99 Dora Russell (née Black) c. 99 Bertrand Russell 99 William Russell 99 Russian proverbs 99 Ira Rutkow 99 John A. Ryle 99 S 99 Saadi (Muslih-ud-Din) 99 Saki (H. H. Munro) 99 School of Salerno 99 John of Salisbury 100 Robert, Marquis of Salisbury 100 William T. Salter 100 H. Sanfey 100 George Santayana 100 Santorio Santorio 100 Dame Cicely Saunders 100 Frederick Saunders 100 Girolamo Savonarola 100 Dorothy L. Sayers 100 Earle P. Scarlett 100 Richard Schatzki 100 R. Schaus 100 Béla Schick 101 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 101 Johann Lukas Schönlein 101 Charles M. Schulz 101 Albert Schweitzer 101 Sir Walter Scott 101 Scottish proverb 101 Roger Scruton 101 Frank Scully 101 Sir Harry Secombe 101 David Seegal 101 John Selden 102 Molly Selvin 102 Richard Selzer 102 Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis 102 Seneca 102 Marie de Sévingé 103 William Shakespeare 103 George Bernard Shaw 103 Percy Bysshe Shelley 104 William Shenstone 104 John Shepherd 104 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 104 Charles Scott Sherrington 104 Michael B. Shimkin 104 William Shippen Jr 105 Herb Shriner 105 Aloysius Sieffert 105 Henry E. Sigerist 105 Silius Italicus 106 Milton M. Silverman 106 P. R. Lee) 106 Viscount Simon 106 James Young Simpson 106 J. Marion Sims 106 Josef Skoda 106 Petr Skrabanek 106 Slovakian proverb 106 Adam Smith 106 Alexander Smith 106 Anthony Smith 106 David James Smith 106 Homer William Smith 106 Logan Pearsall Smith 106 Sydney Smith 107 Theobald Smith 107 Tobias Smollett 107 Francis Scott Smyth 107 John Snow 107 Socrates 107 Susan Sontag 107 Sophocles 107 Merrill C. Sosman 107 Samuel Southard 107 M.Therese Southgate 108 Lazaro Spallanzani 108 Spanish Proverbs 108 Gavin Spence 108 Sir James Calvert Spence 108 Herbert Spencer 108 Willard L. Sperry 108 Benjamin Spock 108 David Spodick 108 Margaret Stacey 108 George Ernst Stahl 108 Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby 108 Issac Starr 109 Paul Starr 109 Sir Richard Steele 109 Gertrude Stein 109 John Steinbeck 109 Laurence Sterne 109 Robert Louis Stevenson 109 Johann Stieglitz 110 Andrew T. Still 110 Alfred Stillé 110 Charles R. Stockard 110 Walter C. Stolov 110 Rex Stout 110 Maurice B. Strauss 110 Samuel Enoch Stumpf 110 Su Wen 110 William Graham Sumner 110 Susruta 110 Swahili proverb 111 Swedish proverb 111 Jonathan Swift 111 Thomas Sydenham 111 Sylvius (François De La Bois) 111 Andrew James Symington 111 Publilius Syrus 111 Thomas Szasz 111 T 111 Tacitus 111 Rabindranath Tagore 112 Robert Lawson Tait 112 The Talmud 112 A. J. P. Taylor 112 Jeremy Taylor 112 John Taylor 112 Esaias Tegnér 112 William Temple 112 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 112 Terence 112 Tertullian 112 Dylan Thomas 112 Sir Henry Thompson 113 Hamish Thomson 113 Henry David Thoreau 113 Jurgen Thorowald 113 Count Leo Tolstoy 113 William Whiteman Carlton Topley 113 Jesse Torrey 113 Stephen E.Toulmin 113 Henri Toulouse-Lautrec 113 Arnold Toynbee 113 Sir Frederick Treves 113 Anthony Trollope 113 Théodore Tronchin 113 Wilfrid Trotter 114 Armand Trousseau 114 Tung-su Pai 114 Samuel L.Turek 114 Ivan Turgenev 114 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) 114 David Tweedle 114 U 114 Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo 114 Maximilianus Urentius 114 V 115 Jerry Vale 115 Paul Valéry 115 Marcos Varro 115 Thorsten Veblen 115 James Venable 115 Venetian proverb 115 Tobias Venner 115 Queen Victoria 115 Leonardo da Vinci 115 Rudolf Virchow 116 Virgil 116 Karl Vogt 116 Richard Volkmann 116 François Voltaire 116 Peter de Vries 116 W 117 Johann Wagner 117 Arthur M.Walker 117 Andrew Wall 117 Patrick David Wall 117 Alfred R.Wallace 117 W.A.Wallis 117 Horace Walpole 117 Sir Francis Martin Rouse Walshe 117 Izaak Walton 117 Owen Wangensteen 117 Charles Dudley Warner 117 John Collins Warren 117 Benjamin Waterhouse 117 David Waters 117 Sir Reginald Watson-Jones 118 Evelyn Waugh 118 Warren Weaver 118 Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson 118 Lord Robert Webb-Johnstone 118 John Webster 118 Jerome Pierce Webster 118 Otto Weininger 118 Soma Weiss 118 William H.Welch 118 H. Gideon Wells 118 Welsh proverbs 118 Karl Frederik Wenckebach 118 Timberlake Wertenberger 118 John Wesley 119 Hugh Wheeler 119 James McNeil Whistler 119 E. B.White 119 Raymond Whitehead 119 Katherine Whitehorn 119 Arthur Whitfield 119 John Greenleaf Whittier 119 George F. I.Widal 119 Samuel Wilberforce 119 Aaron Wildavsky 119 Oscar Wilde 119 Sir William Wilde 119 Thornton Niven Wilder 119 John Wilkes 120 Wendell L.Wilkie 120 George Wilkins 120 Christopher Williams 120 Guy Williams 120 Leonard Williams 120 John Wilson (Christopher North) 120 John Rowan Wilson 120 Maxwell Wintrobe 120 William Withering 120 P. G.Wodehouse 120 Humbert Wolfe 120 Paul Hamilton Wood 120 Virginia Woolf 120 World Medical Association 121 Almroth Wright 121 Frank Lloyd Wright 121 Carl August Wunderlich 121 Y 121 Leon R.Yankwich 121 Yiddish proverb 121 Francis Brett Young 121 Henry Youngman 121 Z 121 Gaspar Zavala y Zamora 121 Zeno of Elea 121 Zeta (Sir (Vincent) Zachary Cope 121 Hans Zinsser 121 Bibliography 122 Index 124 A 124 abdomen 124 abdominal 124 abortion 124 absent 124 absent-minded 124 abstainer 124 abstinence 124 accidents 124 accountability 124 accounting 124 ache 124 aches 124 aching 124 action 124 active 124 actors 124 acute 124 adaptability 124 addiction 125 addictive 125 adhesions 125 adolescence 125 adolescent 125 adult 125 adultery 125 adulthood 125 adults 125 advance 125 advances 125 advertise 125 advice 125 advocates 125 Aesculape 125 Aesculapius 125 affluence 125 age 125 aged 125 ages 125 aging 126 AIDS 126 ailment 126 air 126 airy 126 albumin 126 alcohol 126 alcoholic 126 alimentary 126 alive 126 allergists 126 alternative medicine 126 alters 126 amateurs 126 amaurosis 126 America 126 American 126 American Medical Association 126 Americans 126 amour 126 amputated 127 amputation 127 anaemic 127 anaesthesia 127 anaesthetics 127 anaesthetist 127 anatomist 127 anatomists 127 anatomy 127 ancestors 127 angel 127 anger 127 angina 127 animal 127 animals 127 ankles 127 anorexia nervosa 127 anthropological 127 antiquity 127 antiseptic 128 antivivisectionists 128 anus 128 anxieties 128 anxiety 128 anxious 128 aorta 128 ape 128 apes 128 apoplexy 128 apothecaries 128 apothecary 128 apparatuses 128 appartments 128 appearance 128 appendicitis 128 appendix 128 appetite 128 apple 128 appointments 129 appraisals 129 apprenticeship 129 architect 129 arise 129 armamentarium 129 armies 129 art 129 arteries 129 arthritis 129 artist 129 arts 129 asepsis 129 aspirations 129 assassination 129 asthma 129 asylum 129 asymptomatic 130 atom 130 audit 130 auditory 130 authority 130 authors 130 autobiography 130 autonomy 130 autopsy 130 average 130 B 130 babies 130 baby 130 bacteria 130 bacterial 130 bacteriologists 130 bacteriology 130 bald 130 baldness 130 barren 130 bathe 131 beauty 131 bed 131 bedpan 131 bedside 131 beef 131 beggar 131 beginning 131 behaviour 131 being 131 beings 131 belief 131 believe 131 believer 131 bellied 131 belly 131 benefit 131 better 131 bicycle 131 bill 131 biological 132 biological sciences 132 biologist 132 biology 132 birth 132 birth control 132 birthday 132 black 132 blame 132 blamed 132 bleed 132 bleedeth 132 bleeding 132 blind 132 blindness 132 blood 132 blood letting 132 blunders 133 bodice 133 bodies 133 body 133 Boerhaave 133 bone 133 bones 133 books 133 born 133 botany 133 bottle 133 bowel 133 bowels 134 boy 134 brain 134 brain death 134 brains 134 brave 134 bravery 134 bread 134 break 134 breasts 134 breath 134 breathing 134 breeding 134 brief 134 bring up 134 British 134 British Medical Association 134 bubo 134 bubonic 135 building 135 buildings 135 bum 135 burden 135 business 135 busy 135 butter 135 C 135 caesarean section 135 calculations 135 California 135 calling 135 camel 135 cancer 135 cancers 135 carbolic 135 carburettor 135 care 135 cases 135 cast 135 cataract 135 Catholic 135 cause 136 cell 136 cells 136 centralized 136 champagne 136 chance 136 character 136 characters 136 charity 136 charlatans 136 cheeks 136 cheer 136 cheerfulness 136 chemical 136 chemotherapy 136 chest 136 child 136 childbearing 137 childbed 137 childbirth 137 childhood 137 childishness 137 children 137 Chinese 137 chloroform 137 cholera 137 choleric 137 Christ 137 church 137 churchyard 137 chyle 137 circumcise 137 circumcised 138 citizen 138 citizenship 138 city 138 civilization 138 class 138 cleanliness 138 clergy 138 clergyman 138 clever 138 climate 138 clinical 138 clinician 138 clinicians 138 coarctation 138 coffee 138 coffin 138 cohabit 138 cold 138 colic 138 colleagues 139 college 139 colostomy 139 comedy 139 comfort 139 commission 139 committee 139 common sense 139 communicability 139 communication 139 communicative 139 community 139 compassion 139 complains 139 complaints 139 complexion 139 complexity 139 complications 139 comprehension 139 computers 139 conceiving 139 conception 140 conclusions 140 confession 140 confidence 140 confusion 140 conjecture 140 conscience 140 conscious 140 consent 140 conservative 140 conspiracies 140 constitution 140 consultant 140 consultation 140 consumption 140 consumptions 140 consumptive 140 continental 140 contraceptives 140 contradiction 140 control 140 controversies 141 controversy 141 convalescence 141 conviviality 141 convulsion 141 cookery 141 copulation 141 coronary 141 corporate 141 corpse 141 cost 141 costlier 141 costly 141 costs 141 cough 141 coughs 141 country 141 court 141 courtesy 141 cowardice 141 cradle 141 craftsman 141 create 142 creatures 142 cricket 142 crime 142 Crimean 142 crippled 142 criticism 142 crowd 142 crucifixion 142 cultural 142 culture 142 cure 142 cured 142 cures 142 curing 142 custom 143 cut 143 cuts 143 D 143 dad 143 dangerous 143 Darwinian 143 data 143 day 143 daybreak 143 days 143 DDT 143 dead 143 deafness 143 death 143 deaths 144 debate 144 decay 144 decision 144 decrepit 144 deduction 144 deductions 144 deference 144 deformed 144 delirious 144 delirium 144 delusions 144 demand 144 demeanour 144 dentist 145 dermatologists 145 dermatology 145 descended 145 desire 145 despair 145 destiny 145 developing countries 145 device 145 dexterity 145 diabetes 145 diagnose 145 diagnosed 145 diagnoses 145 diagnosis 145 diagnostic 145 diagnostically 145 die 145 died 146 dies 146 diet 146 diets 146 digest 146 digestion 146 digitalis 146 dignity 146 dinner 146 diploma 146 directives 147 disability 147 discover 147 discoveries 147 discovery 147 discrimination 147 disease 147 diseased 148 diseases 148 disinfectants 148 dissected 148 dissections 148 distinctions 148 distinguish 148 disuse 148 divines 149 do 149 doctor 149 Doctor Slop 149 doctor-made 150 doctor–patient relationship 150 doctors 150 doctrine 150 dogmas 150 dollars 150 dope 150 doses 150 double effect 150 doubt 150 doubter 150 doubts 150 drain 150 drank 151 dream 151 dreams 151 dressed 151 drink 151 drinking 151 drinks 151 dropsy 151 drowned 151 drug 151 drug companies 151 drugged 151 drugs 151 drunk 151 drunken 151 drunkenness 151 dull 152 duties 152 duty 152 dying 152 dysentery 152 dyspepsia 152 E 152 ear 152 ears 152 eat 152 eaten 152 eaters 152 eating 152 eats 152 educated 152 education 153 educational 153 egg 153 elbow 153 elder 153 elderly 153 elective 153 embryo 153 emergency 153 emoluments 153 empiricism 153 employment 153 endoscopic 153 enemy 153 energies 153 English 153 Englishmen 153 enjoyment 153 enteric sciences 153 environment 153 epidemic 153 epidemics 154 epidemiologist 154 epilepsy 154 epitaph 154 equal 154 error 154 errors 154 erysipelas 154 erythrocytes 154 ether 154 ethic 154 ethical 154 ethics 154 eugenics 154 euthanasia 154 events 154 evil 154 evils 154 evolution 154 evolved 155 examination 155 examinations 155 examine 155 examiners 155 excretory 155 exercise 155 existence 155 experience 155 experiment 155 experimental 155 experimentation 155 experimenter 155 experiments 155 expert 155 expire 155 exploratory 155 explore 156 eye 156 eyeballs 156 eyes 156 eyesight 156 F 156 face 156 fact 156 facts 156 faculties 156 fads 156 failures 156 faith 156 fallacy 156 fallopian 156 fame 156 families 156 family 157 famine 157 fart 157 fashion 157 fashions 157 fast 157 fasting 157 fat 157 fatal 157 fate 157 father 157 fault 157 faults 157 fear 157 fed 157 fee 157 feed 157 fees 157 feet 157 felt 158 fertility 158 fever 158 fevers 158 fifty 158 fighting 158 filthy 158 financial 158 finds 158 finger 158 fingers 158 fire 158 fish 158 fistula 158 fittest 158 Fleming 158 flesh 158 fleshy 158 food 158 foods 158 fool 159 forgotten 159 foxglove 159 French 159 Frenchman 159 Freud 159 friend 159 friendship 159 friendships 159 frog 159 function 159 functional 159 functions 159 funeral 159 funerals 159 future 159 G 159 gadgets 159 Galen 159 gangrene 159 garden 159 gastroenterologist 159 general 160 General Medical Council 160 general medicine 160 general practice 160 general practitioner 160 generalisation 160 generations 160 genetics 1 Cover Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 ISBN 0192630474......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Contents......Page 12 The Index......Page 13 Francis Heed Adler......Page 14 John Allan Dalrymple Anderson......Page 15 Anonymous......Page 16 Arabic proverbs......Page 18 Asclepiades......Page 19 Washington Ayer......Page 20 Alvan L. Barach......Page 21 G. H. Beaton......Page 22 Jeremy Bentham......Page 23 Aneurin Bevan......Page 24 Xavier Bichat......Page 25 Theodor Billroth......Page 26 George Borrow......Page 27 Jacob Bronowski......Page 28 Jean de La Bruyère......Page 29 Robert Burton......Page 30 James S. Calnan......Page 31 David W. Cathell......Page 32 Charles II......Page 33 Chinese proverbs......Page 34 Cicero......Page 35 Henry, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead......Page 36 Arthur Conan Doyle......Page 37 Bill Cosby......Page 38 Thomas Curling......Page 39 C. D. Darlington......Page 40 Jean Baptiste de la Salle......Page 41 Joseph Dietl......Page 42 Daniel Drake......Page 43 Lawrence Durrell......Page 44 Havelock Ellis......Page 45 Erassistratus......Page 46 Henry Fielding......Page 47 Flemish proverb......Page 48 Frederick the Great......Page 49 J. K. Galbraith......Page 50 William H. George......Page 51 Raanan Gillon......Page 52 Johannes De Gorter......Page 53 Sir William Withey Gull......Page 54 Walton H. Hamilton......Page 55 William Hazlitt......Page 56 ’Ben Hecht......Page 57 Charles Judson Herrick......Page 58 Hippocrates......Page 59 Russell Hoban......Page 60 Oliver Wendell Holmes......Page 61 Ed Howe......Page 62 David Hume......Page 63 Sir Robert Hutchison......Page 64 Irish Proverbs......Page 65 Karl Jaspers......Page 66 Samuel Johnson......Page 67 John Keats......Page 68 Sergei S. Korsakoff......Page 69 Guido Lanfranchi c.......Page 70 Desmond Roger Laurence......Page 71 Alan Jay Lerner......Page 72 Lord Lister......Page 73 Warfield Theobald Longcope......Page 74 Martin Luther......Page 75 Des McHale......Page 76 Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides)......Page 77 Marcus Valerius Martialis Martial......Page 78 W. Somerset Maughan......Page 79 Charles H. Mayo......Page 80 Samuel J. Meltzer......Page 81 John of Mirfield......Page 82 Michel de Montaigne......Page 83 Mother Theresa......Page 84 Ogden Nash......Page 85 Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel......Page 86 Sir William Osler......Page 87 Giovanni Papini......Page 88 Louis Pasteur......Page 89 Francis Weld Peabody......Page 90 Heinrich von Pfolspeundt......Page 91 Plato......Page 92 Edgar Allan Poe......Page 93 William Hickling Prescott......Page 94 Proverbs......Page 95 Theodor Reik......Page 96 Roger of Salerno......Page 97 C.W. Rucker......Page 98 School of Salerno......Page 99 R. Schaus......Page 100 David Seegal......Page 101 Seneca......Page 102 George Bernard Shaw......Page 103 Michael B. Shimkin......Page 104 Henry E. Sigerist......Page 105 Logan Pearsall Smith......Page 106 Samuel Southard......Page 107 Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby......Page 108 Robert Louis Stevenson......Page 109 Susruta......Page 110 Tacitus......Page 111 Dylan Thomas......Page 112 Théodore Tronchin......Page 113 Maximilianus Urentius......Page 114 Leonardo da Vinci......Page 115 Peter de Vries......Page 116 David Waters......Page 117 Timberlake Wertenberger......Page 118 Thornton Niven Wilder......Page 119 Virginia Woolf......Page 120 Hans Zinsser......Page 121 Bibliography......Page 122 adaptability......Page 124 ages......Page 125 amour......Page 126 antiquity......Page 127 apple......Page 128 asylum......Page 129 barren......Page 130 bill......Page 131 blood letting......Page 132 bowel......Page 133 bubo......Page 134 Catholic......Page 135 child......Page 136 circumcise......Page 137 colic......Page 138 conceiving......Page 139 control......Page 140 craftsman......Page 141 curing......Page 142 death......Page 143 demeanour......Page 144 die......Page 145 diploma......Page 146 disease......Page 147 disuse......Page 148 Doctor Slop......Page 149 drain......Page 150 drunkenness......Page 151 educated......Page 152 epidemic......Page 153 evolution......Page 154 exploratory......Page 155 families......Page 156 feet......Page 157 foods......Page 158 gastroenterologist......Page 159 God......Page 160 guts......Page 161 heal......Page 162 health......Page 163 heredity......Page 164 hours......Page 165 hurt......Page 166 ignorant......Page 167 immortality......Page 168 infections......Page 169 intellect......Page 170 jargon......Page 171 knife......Page 172 law......Page 173 lies......Page 174 literary......Page 175 love......Page 176 malnutrition......Page 177 manslaughter......Page 178 medical knowledge......Page 179 médicine......Page 180 medicine......Page 181 microbe......Page 182 mind......Page 183 Mongolian......Page 184 names......Page 185 neurologists......Page 186 observation......Page 187 older......Page 188 organisms......Page 189 painful......Page 190 pathologist......Page 191 patients......Page 192 perspiration......Page 193 physician......Page 194 physicians......Page 195 poisons......Page 196 practitioner......Page 197 principles......Page 198 professors......Page 199 psychology......Page 200 quacks......Page 201 rectal......Page 202 research......Page 203 rising......Page 204 science......Page 205 scientific......Page 206 senility......Page 207 sick......Page 208 skin......Page 209 social life......Page 210 special practice......Page 211 stammering......Page 212 stroke......Page 213 sulphur......Page 214 surgical......Page 215 teacher......Page 216 theory......Page 217 tongue......Page 218 treatment......Page 219 unconscious......Page 220 vision......Page 221 weary......Page 222 woman......Page 223 wounds......Page 224 youth......Page 225 The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations presents a wonderfully entertaining and eclectic range of quotations covering all aspects of medicine through the ages. It couples profound statements from famous scientists with witty one-liners from the likes of Woody Allen and Spike Milligan. Packed with hundreds of quotations, it is a book that anyone in the medical profession, or with an interest in health, will find an invaluable source of reference and considerable entertainment. A few examples:'I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.'- Woody Allen'The only cure for sea-sickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.'- English sailors'proverb'The nurse should never neglect to attend to the patient's bodily hygiene on the pretext that such measures do little good and are not urgent.'- Florence Nightingale