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Responsibility of medicine

Poems on duty, oath, decision, and the hours when care cannot be delegated.

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Duty and responsibility

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  1. Source-attestedCHANT HUITIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    The God who unites the destiny of lovers, Has two famous Temples for the bonds of Hymen, One close to Amathus, is in those gentle climes, That winter never sullied with its fros...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  2. Source-attestedCHANT PREMIER.French · 19th century · English available

    Sublime art, faithful to the will of nature, Before self-interest, envy, and imposture Had subjected your laws to their caprice, A child of Apollo today avenges your rights. Apo...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  3. Source-attestedCHANT SIXIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    I have sung of Nature and her Temple, or womb, And her inherent force and her expulsive force. Muse, tell us how, without support, without aid, Fanni alone brought forth the fru...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  4. Source-attestedCHANT TROISIÈME.French · 19th century · English available

    I have crossed the Cocytus, and we gain the road Which must guide my steps beneath the infernal vault Of the odious empire of which Pluto is the King. All my senses are seized w...

    La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe
  5. Source-attestedALEXIPHARMACA,Latin · 17th century · English available

    Although of Asia far from each other sep- arated widely the walls, with which our cities surrounded our parents, Protagoras, and them a space sepa- rates vast, yet easily will I...

    Nicandri Theriaca, interprete Ioannis Gorraeo parisiensi
  6. Source-attestedCARMEN, IN NVPTIAS ILLV- STRISS. PRINCIPIS, D. D. IO- ANNIS GVILIELMI, Ducis Saxoniæ, &c. & SVSANNAE DOROTHEAE, illuſtriß. P. FRIDERICI Elect. Palatini ad Rhenum, Boiariæ Ducis, &c. filiæ :Latin · 16th century · English available

    You Muses, who sing to me of the marriages of kings, To whom the long succession of time, to whom deep antiquity, And the faithful guardianship of perpetual fame is entrusted, W...

    Poemata
  7. Source-attestedCONTINUANTUR SIGNIFICATIONES PULSUUM.Latin · 19th century · English available

    That which, *very frequent*, renews and repeats its stroke Is contracted by fragile strength, and strong heat, So that the acquired vapor of the heart can be refreshed It demand...

    Aegidii Corboliensis carmina medica
  8. Source-attestedEPICEDION IN OBI- TVM D. CASPARIS CRVCIGE= RI, SCRIPTVM A PETRO LOTICHIO SECVNDO.Latin · 16th century · English available

    Highest Father, and offspring of the Father, and you, Breath, who blow upon All things, who strengthen us, coming from both: I pray to you, O God, the one judge of things in thr...

    Poemata
  9. Source-attestedInclyto FRATRUM GERMANORUM PARI, Dn. GEORGIO } & } HORSTIIS, Dn. JOH. OTTONI } Med. Doctorib. & Archiatris feliciſſimis, Dnn. Affinibus plur. colendis,Latin · 17th century · English available

    Those hours which, after I had discharged the tasks assigned to me, the serious burden of a physician's office allowed, A few of these gentle Euterpe, moving silently, snatched...

    Mikrokosmographia Metrica, sive Humani Corporis Historia
  10. Source-attestedT H E R I A C A,Latin · 17th century · English available

    AND the various forms, and with dire tooth of wild beasts The bites on the unwary, then with what remedy the harm You may drive away, greater to me than the rest joined by blood...

    Nicandri Theriaca, interprete Ioannis Gorraeo parisiensi
  11. Source-attestedBlâmez un médecin, si, jaloux du plaisir,French · 19th century · English available

    Blame a physician, if, eager for pleasure, He shows no exactitude in his duties; But if, to relieve all those he sees suffer, He makes his profession his principal study, Leave...

    Le Parnasse médical français
  12. Source-attestedVita brevis, longa ars, præceps occasio, fallaxLatin · 19th century · English available

    Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, deceptive Experience, judgment a difficult matter; but It is not enough for the physician to discharge his required duty, Un...

    Le Parnasse médical français