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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)
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.
See also: | Physician (138)
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.
