“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) Swiss physician and alchemist
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) Swiss physician and alchemist
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) English writer
Darkness and Day (London: Victor Gollancz, [1951] 1974) p. 216.
“I knew that I had been chosen as God's instrument for the work of the healing of the nation.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter from 1938, as quoted in My Father : The True Story (1955) by A. W. Baldwin, pp. 327 - 328
1938
“169. God heales, and the physitian hath the thankes.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Dios le ha dado mucho al hombre; pero el hombre quisiera algo del hombre.
Voces (1943)
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Cheers, cries of "Progress!" and "Judas!" <br class="br"> Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1893/jul/27/committee-progress-new-clauses-26th-july#column_724 in the House of Commons (27 July 1893) against the Irish Home Rule Bill <br class="br">1890s
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
A Battle For Life (July 1958)
Context: The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12
“To which god must I sacrifice in order to heal?”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me?
It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster.
Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984).