Medical Aphorism

Category - (Nos - 41)
SNo	Aphorism
11	That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. - Aldous Huxley,
12	You know, my dentist thinks of railways to relax. Ah yes, trains-and-dental meditation.
13	(Whiskey) …kills one-third of our citizens and ruins their families. - Thomas Jefferson
14	Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. - Benjamin Franklin
15	First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, and then the drink takes the man. - Japanese Proverb
16	Old Doctors never die, they just lose their patience. Old lawyers never die, they just threaten their doctor with malpractice.
17	A cold is both positive and negative; sometimes the eyes have it, sometimes the nose.
18	If the matters which are purged be such as should be purged, the evacuation is beneficial, and easily borne; but, not withstanding, if otherwise, with difficulty.
19	Use purgative medicines sparingly in acute diseases, and at the commencement, and not without proper circumspection.
20	The evacuations are to be judged of not by their quantity, but whether they be such as they should be, and how they are borne. And when proper to carry the evacuation to deliquium animi, this also should be done, provided the patient can support it.

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