From the Bitterness of Disease man learns the Sweetness of Health -Part 2 (Post No.14,984)

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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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Only a Doctor can kill you Without Punishment– Part1 (Post No.14,980)

Written by London Swaminathan

Post No. 14,980

Date uploaded in London –  13 September 2025

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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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