Guest guest Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Love the quote. It is alternatively listed on the web as a Bulgarian Proverb and from H.G. Bohn. http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2571/3/?spage=2 & letter=Phttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Complementary_and_Alternative_Medicine/Quotes Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. —Bulgarian proverb http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2875 http://workinghumor.com/quotes/medicine.shtml# http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/11251/view Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. —H.G. Bohn Henry Bohn (January 4, 1796 – August 22, 1884) was a British publisher. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages. Printed on this catalogue was the information: "Dinner at 2 o'clock, dessert at 4, tea at 5, and supper at 10." The name of Bohn is principally remembered by the important Libraries which he inaugurated: these were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes. One of Bohn's most useful and laborious undertakings was his revision (6 vols. 1864) of The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (1834) of W.T. Lowndes. The plan includes bibliographical and critical notices, particulars of prices, etc., and a considerable addition to the original work. It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons. Bohn was a man of wide culture and many interests. He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, china and ivories, and was a famous rose-grower. He died at Twickenham on the 22nd of August 1884 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. Locke, MD From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of F StrazzulloSent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:52 PMTo: ; ' 'Subject: RE: Team Care for 21st Century Family Medicine I have a fortune cookie fortune taped to my monitor that reads, “J Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. J” RE: Team Care for 21st Century Family Medicine I was taught in medical school by a wise old country doc, that if I justlistened well enough, the patients would tell me what is wrong withthem. ***Me too I thought it was a osler quote I mix two of them togetherone isiF you want to know what is wrong with the patient, ask her.and the other is something like the job of the physcian is to amuse thepatient while nature does the healing (mangled) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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