Showing posts with label dying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dying. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2009

What was that Oath?

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 Philospophical Dictionary. Physicians.

Laugh ur not imagining it

Adrian, The Emperor, exclaimed incesssantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

MONTAIGNE - Essays. Bk. II Ch. XXXVII

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Disease

"The taxes laid upon this wretched life."

Lord Chesterfield

"Death's servant."

Francis Rous

Just to Let You Know

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

Helen Keller