Clue Quote by Giorgio Baglivi

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are skills that…

— David B. Agus

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two…

— Hippocrates

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

— Paracelsus

“In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing.…

— Carl Sagan

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode…

— Avicenna

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition…

— Wilfred Trotter

Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the…

— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him…

— Gilles Menage

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

— Justin Martyr