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2Proverbs on Doctors2
Part Two
Make much of a physician through necessity.
Where there are three physicians there are two atheists.
Every idiot, priest, jew, monk, actor, barber and old woman fancy them physicians.
–Latin proverbs
Better no doctor at all than three.
Before a doctor can cure one, he will kill ten.
Wait with your pains till the doctor comes.
The doctor cures when he can smell money.
The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.
A beggar does not hate another beggar as much as one doctor hates another.
Ask the patient, not the doctor, where the pain is.
In Padua there are more doctors than patients.
–Polish
The more doctors, the more diseases- Portuguese
If you wish to die soon, make your physician your heir.
Romanian
Six men give a doctor less to do than one woman.
A draught of water on a salad deprives the doctor of a ducat; a draught of water on an egg deprives him of two.
Don’t take every ill to the doctor, or every quarrel to the lawyer or every thirst to the pitcher.
When doctors fast it is bad for the cure.
From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.
Spanish
No one becomes a good doctor before he has filled a churchyard.
The doctor who would heal another’s hurt should not show his own.
With a young lawyer you lose your inheritance; with a young doctor your health.
–Swedish
Time is the best doctor – Yiddish
When you are ill, call in any doctor.
Nature is better than a middling doctor.
To take no medicine is as good as a middling doctor.
When you shut out the sun coming through the window, the doctor comes in at the door.
The unlucky doctor treats the head of a disease, the lucky doctor its tail.
The son of a great doctor usually dies of disease.
–Chinese
The doctor who prescribes gratuitously gives a worthless prescription.
A doctor from a distance is like blind eye.
The house that does not open to the poor shall open to the physician.
He that sinneth before his maker will behave himself proudly before a physician.
Do not dwell in a town where the chief man in it is a physician.
A physician afar off is a blind eye.
Honour a physician before thou hast need of him.
The physician who accepts no fee is worth no fee.
A physician whose services are obtained gratis is worth nothing.
Wait not to honour the physician until thou fallest sick.
The best of physicians is worthy of Gehenna
The best of physicians will go to Hades.
—Hebrew
To be continued……………………….
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