40 definitions
40 (age) (n.) is a cutoff point for most human achievement. The vitalizing work of the world is done before the age of forty and if one were to subtract the achievements of men above forty, we would practically be where we are today.
The Common cold (n.) is a thing best treated with a dose of contempt.
The Diagnosis (n.) is told to the physician by the patient if the doctor listens carefully enough.
Diagnosis (n.) is a determination whereby it is more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
Education (n.) is not a college course or a medical course but a life course.
Genetics (n.) is destiny. Varicose veins, for example, is nothing but the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
Happiness (n.) lies in absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
A Library (n.) is representative of the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
Life (n.) is a thing we are here to add what we can to it, not to get what we can from it.
Medicine (n.) is an art rather than a science and would only be the latter if it were not for the great variability among individuals.
Medicine (n.) is an art, not a trade such that the best part of the work of the physician has nothing to do with medicine but with the exercise of an influence upon the patient.
Medicine (n.) is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom.
Medicine (n.) is overused. One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Medicine (n.) requires one who takes it to recover twice; once from the disease and once from the medicine.
Medicine (n.) is grounded in variability. Variability is the law of life. No two bodies are alike and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
The Patient (n.) is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.