"Is there no hope? " the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.

(Macbeth: ) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor: ) Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. (Macbeth: ) Cure her of tha ...

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

A single doctor likes a sculler plies, And all his art and all his physic tries; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Conduct you soonest to the Stygian shores.

And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.

Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic After his patient's death: the king already Hath married the fair lady.