The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton

[4089]. Opinio facit medicos: a fair gown, a velvet cap, the name of a doctor is all in all.

[4090]. Morbus alius pro alio curatur; aliud remedium pro alio.

[4091]. Contrarias proferunt sententias. Card.

[4092]. Lib. 3. de sap. Omnes artes fraudem admittunt, sola medicina sponte eam accersit.

[4093]. Omnis aegrotus, propria culpa perit, sed nemo nisi medici beneficio restituitur. Agrippa.

[4094]. “How does the surgeon differ from the doctor? In this respect: one kills by drugs, the other by the hand; both only differ from the hangman in this way, they do slowly what he does in an instant.”

[4095]. “Medicine cannot cure the knotty gout.”

[4096]. Lib. 3. Crat. ep. Winceslao Raphaeno. Ausim dicere, tot pulsuum differentias, quae describuntur a Galeno, nec a quoquam intelligi, nec observari posse.

[4097]. Lib. 28. cap. 7. syntax, art. mirab. Mallem ego expertis credere solum, quam mere ratiocinantibus: neque satis laudare possum institutum Babylonicum, &c.

[4098]. Herod. Euterpe de Egyptiis. Apud eos singulorum morborum sunt singuli medici; alius curat oculos, alius dentes, alius caput, partes occultas alius.