Oxford Dictionary of Medical QuotationsOUP Oxford, 6. nov. 2003 - 224 strani 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 |
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... body , not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development . Attributed Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the bedchamber ; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies ...
... body , not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development . Attributed Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the bedchamber ; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies ...
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... body before Promote the Break - up of the Poor Laws ( 1909 ) riches . Ecclesiasticus The spine is a series of bones running down your back . You sit on one end of it and your head sits Arabic proverbs on the other . He who has health ...
... body before Promote the Break - up of the Poor Laws ( 1909 ) riches . Ecclesiasticus The spine is a series of bones running down your back . You sit on one end of it and your head sits Arabic proverbs on the other . He who has health ...
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... body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. Rhetoric II.xiv Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the ...
... body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. Rhetoric II.xiv Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the ...
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... body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former ou can send it back to its maker . A Sense of Asher p . 86. Pitman Medical , UK ( 1972 ) Marcus Aurelius AD 121–180 Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Nowhere ...
... body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former ou can send it back to its maker . A Sense of Asher p . 86. Pitman Medical , UK ( 1972 ) Marcus Aurelius AD 121–180 Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Nowhere ...
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... body. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Ch. Pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Ch. X Bernard Berenson ...
... body. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Ch. Pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Ch. X Bernard Berenson ...
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