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Peter Shaw
(c. Mar 1694 - 15 Mar 1763)
English physician who translated, editted and wrote books on medicine and chemistry. He was active in Scarborough, and made a chemical study of the spa waters there. Shaw was appointed extraordinary physician to George II in 1752, and became physician in ordinary to George III in 1760.
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Science Quotes by Peter Shaw (3 quotes)
A certain author defines a doctor to be a man who writes prescriptions till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
— Peter Shaw
The Reflector: Representing Human Affairs As They Are (1750). In The Pocket Lacon (1839), Vol. 1, 59.
He is the best Physician in whom the Patient has the greatest Confidence.
— Peter Shaw
The Reflector: Representing Human Affairs As They Are (1750). In Allan Ingram, Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century (1998), 69.
Many Diseases arise from a perverted Imagination; and some of them are cured by affecting the Imagination only.
— Peter Shaw
The Reflector: Representing Human Affairs As They Are (1750). In Allan Ingram, Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century (1998), 69.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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