The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. – Ecclesiasticus 38:4 (Bible)

What a doctor wants… is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889 — spea

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. – Leonard Alfred George Strong

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. – Robert Jay Lifton