Author: Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness

The Desert is—A brown maidenBasking in the sun.~Ruth E. Meakin (b.1888), "April's Secret"

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. ~Edward Abbey

A surgeon should be young, a physician old. ~ A Proverb

HYGIENE.  Bacteriology made moral... ~H. L. Mencken

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier (1861–1949), quoted in Maurice B. Strauss, Familiar Medical Quotations, 1968

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The patient has the right to accept your advice or to ignore it. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author unknown, c.1930s

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)