Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-16
Wide Varie+y
Of Opinions
On Doctors
M e n ek ems Dictionary
Brings Them Forth

brings Them forth
BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING
LIVERY one seems TO be re-
II viewing II. l.. Mencken's re-
Gently published Dictionary of
Quotations on Historical Prin-
ciples."
Since this Is the only die
tionary of quotations in which
have ever appeared, have
been very much interested in
them, although I don't espe-
cially like what one review said:
Quotations are included II
made by anybody, including the
cop on the corner, Shakespeare,
and ibid"
1 don't mind being associated
with the cop on the corner. but
/ don't like that anybody and
ibid"
Mr.. Mencken always has had
a good nose for medical matters
and from the Dictionary /
quote as follows:
I'VE are bound to our bodies
like an oyster to Its she'll
Plato.
'DermatolOgy Is the best spe-
cialty. The patient never dies
and never gets we'll"
Author unidentified.
"NATURE. In the production
of disease, Is uniform and
consistent, 10 much so that for
the same disease I'm different
persons the symptoms are for
the most part the same. and the
seIfsame phenomena that you
would observe In the sickness OF
A Socrates you would observe In
the sickness of n simpleton."--
Thomas Sydenham.
Disease Is very old and moth
Ing about II has changed. Ii Is
we who change ~ we learn to
recognize what was formerly
imperceptible. y. NJ Charcot.
Natural forces within us are
the true healers OF disease
Hippocrates.
Because all the sick do not
recover. therefore medicine Is no
art."-Cicero
Medicine Il n coniectural art.
IL has almost no rules. "-Aulus
Cornelius CELSIUS.
ENIEARLY all men die Of
" their medicines. not OF
their Observation-Disclosures.
There Is a common argument
that Is both false and fatal. So
and-so,' one hears. has been
cured by such-and-such a treat
ment, and I have his disease;
ergo. I must try his remedy.
How many people die by reason
ing thus. What they overlook
IL that the diseases which afflict
us are as different rs the fea-
lures of our faces."-Voltaire.
Take a dose of medicine once
and I'm all probability you will
he obliged to take an additional
100 afterward." - Napoleon,
Medicine Is the only profess
sion that labors necessarily to
destroy the reason for Its own
existence."-James Bryce.
Commonly, physicians. like
beer, are best when they are
old. Thomas Fuller.
EuE'S THE best physician
IA that knows the worthless
ness Of the most medicines."-
Benjamin Franklin.
You medical people will have
more lives to answer for in the
other world than even we gen
als."-Napoleon.
Mature, time and patience
are the three great physicians"
H. G.. BONN.
"a physician is one who pours
drugs OF which he knows little
into a body OF which he knows
author unidentified.
"a lucky physician Is better
than a good one" German
proverb.
QUESTIONS. ANSWERS
w. F.. Chow can a doctor
determine whether a patient has
mastitis of the breast? Does the
fact that the lump is loose prove
that il is mastitis or would X
ray definitely determine what
causes a hard lump in the
breast?
Answer: Certain features diff
ferentiate mastitis from cancer
and these can be determined by
the feel OF the lump in most in
stances. The X-ray shows
changes. The final court, of
course. is to remove portion
Of the lump and put il under the
microscope-biopSy.