Physic. Physicians.

PUNISH and prescribe synonymous terms in Physic, iv. 39. [228].

Why, asks Lovelace, when Physicians can do no good; will they not study to gratify rather than nauseate the palate of their patients? ibid.

Page  178 It is ill jesting with edged tools, and worse with phy|sical ones, Lovel. iv. 81. [274].

Those who treat contemptuously the professors of the art of healing, generally treat higher institutions as light|ly, Clarissa, iv. 86. [279].

Sharp or acute mental organs frequently whet out the bodily ones, v. 172. [vi. 76].

A generous Physician, where he is hopeless of doing good, will put on the Friend, and lay aside the Doctor, v. 386. [vi. 305].

When physical men, says Belford, are at a loss what to prescribe to their patients, they inquire what it is they best like, or are most diverted with, and forbid them that, vi. 66. [397].

Physicians, to do credit to their skill, will sometimes make a slight disease important, Lovel. vi. 201. [vii. 121].

We ought to begin early to study what our constitu|tions will bear, vi. 265. [vii. 189].

Physicians, when they find a case desperate, should generally decline the fee, vi. 266. [vii. 190].

Friendship and Physician are not absolutely incom|patible, vi. 330. [vii. 258].

A skilful operator will endeavour to be intelligible, and, if honest, to make every one a judge of his practice, vii. 137. [viii. 57].

Generally, says Belford, when the Physician enters, the air is shut out, vii. 140. [viii. 61].

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality, vii. 287. [viii. 213].

A full meal is a great enemy both to study and in|dustry, ibid.

A worthy Physician will pay a regular and constant attendance upon his patient, watching with his own eyes every change, and every new symptom, of his malady, vii. 300. [viii. 227].

He will vary his applications as indications vary, ibid.

He will not fetter himself to rules laid down by the fathers of the art who lived many hundred years ago, when diseases, and the causes of them, as also the modes Page  179 of living, and climates, and accidents, were different from what they are now, vii. 300. [viii. 227].

He should not be greedy of fees; but proportion his expectation of reward to the good in his conscience he thinks he does, ibid.

See Health. Vapours.