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Physicians Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
- PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
- DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
- Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
- APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
- BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
- Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease,…
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- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
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