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1PROVERBS ON DOCTORS AND MEDICINE
The doctor dressed his wounds, but God healed him.
Eat leeks in March, garlic in May; all the rest of the year the doctors may play.
-British proverbs
He that eats but one dish seldom needs the doctor.
A drunken doctor is always clever.
-Irish
Many doctors- death accomplished.
The inexperienced physician makes a humpy church yard.
Live with reason and you will live without physicians.
–Czech
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
A house closed to the poor will open to the doctor.
–Danish
He who shakes everyman by the hand may be glad to fee the doctor.
A good doctor must have falcon’ s eye, a girl’s hand, and a lion’s heart .
A young doctor requires a big cemetery.
–Dutch
He is a fool who makes his doctor his heir
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
The presence of the doctor is the beginning of the cure.
The gentle handed doctor makes a stinking wound.
It is only doctors who are allowed to lie.
Bread and cheese medicines for the well.
Most men die of their medicines and not for their maladies.
A mess of broth hath lost the physician his fee.
All sicknesses arrive on wings and depart limpingly.
One sees more old drunkards than old doctors.
–French
If God helps you—thank the doctor.
Do not ask the doctor, ask the patient.
A young doctor is a new graveyard.
New doctor- New churchyard.
Good doctors don’t like big bottles.
The doctor’s errors are covered with earth, our own mistakes with love.
Mirth, temperance and tranquillity shut the door in the doctor’s face.
No doctor is better than three.
Healthy folk make sick doctors.
When there are three doctors to one patient, the cemetery can return thanks.
God and doctor are acknowledged in need.
The lawyers purge the purge, the doctors the stomach, the parsons the soul.
There are more old tipplers than old doctors.
When you call the physician, call the judge to make your will.
Who has a physician has an executioner.
A lucky physician is better than a learned one.
No physician is better than three.
Three things a good physician must have: a lion’s heart, a maiden’s hand, and eagle’s eye.
A young physician should have three graveyards.
Illness always enters where it is well nursed.
Illness comes on horseback and leaves on foot.
When two invalids meet, the illness remains in the middle.
—German
The disorder is a physician.
Consult not the physician, but the disorder.
Don’t consult the doctor but the one who has been ill.
–Greek
First the doctor, then the God—Georgian proverb.
Only a doctor can kill you without punishment.
When everybody is doing well, the doctor is miserable.
–Hungarian
He who doesn’t know a trade becomes a doctor.
Where the sun does not go, the doctor goes.
While the doctor is reflecting, the patient dies.
A doctor’s error, the will of God.
The friend of the priest loses his religion.
The friend of the doctor loses his health;
The friend of the lawyer loses his substance.
If the patient dies, it is the doctor who has killed him and if he gets well, it is the saint who has cured him.
—Italian proverbs.
To be continued………………..
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