God, surgeon, medicine, patient

doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7489.455-a

BMJ 2005;330:455 (26 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7489.455-a

Filler

Endpiece

God, surgeon, medicine, patient

Hippocrates in his Aphorisms, as Galen writeth sure, Saieth,foure things are needfull to every kind of cure, The first,saith he, to God belongeth the chiefest part, The second tothe Surgeon, who doth apply the art, The third unto the medicine,that is dame Natures friend The fourth unto the patient, withwhom I heere will end.

Clowes W. A profitable and necessarie booke of observations.London: 1596

Jeremy Hugh Baron, honorary professorial lecturer

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

CiteULike

Complore

Connotea

Del.icio.us Add to Digg

Digg

Technorati What's this?

Rapid Responses:

Read all Rapid Responses

Often, I find the Medicine Worse than The Malady: Dr. Herbert H. Nehrlich
bmj.com, 28 Feb 2005 [Full text]
No God, no Nature...no Cure: Peter Morrell
bmj.com, 28 Feb 2005 [Full text]
Quadruped of successful treatment: RANGESH PARAMESH
bmj.com, 28 Feb 2005 [Full text]
Duty of a physician: Shashikiran Umakanth
bmj.com, 3 Mar 2005 [Full text]