“Roger Rabbit: Yeah. Check the probate. Why, my Uncle Thumper had a problem with HIS probate, and he had to take these big pills, and drink lots of water. Eddie Valiant: Not prostate, you idiot, PROBATE!”— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Eddie Valiant, Bob Hoskins, imdb.com
“I'm gonna take him down in 48 hours! Get my own chapter in the medical books.”— Marc Hyman, Thrax (voice), Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com
“Simon: Were you concerned about Bright's medical state? JT: Of course, I was. If Bright's was an actual state, it would be Florida.”— Chris Fedak, Sam Sklaver, JT Tarmel, Frank Harts, imdb.com
“I hate doctors! They poke you, and ask if that hurts. Of course it hurts, you just poked me!”— Laurie Gelman, Hilda Spellman, Caroline Rhea, imdb.com
“It was found that broth in which the mould had been grown at room temperature for one or two weeks had acquired marked inhibitory, bacteriocidal and bacteriolytic properties to many of the more common pathogenic bacteria.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to te…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted.”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger th…”— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com
“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuousl…”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com