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" A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right hand was doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly... "
Doctor Thorne: A Novel : In 2 Vols - Page 51
by Anthony Trollope - 1858 - 4 pages
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Words Commemorative of Henry Bigelow: Spoken on Thursday, Jan. 25, in Eliot ...

Edward James Young - 1866 - 42 pages
...not often deceived. He seldom erred in judgment. And how noiselessly he went about doing good, not letting his left hand know what his right hand was doing ! It will never be known in this world how much good he has done. No wonder that he had the heart-worship...
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Volume 3

Anthony Trollope - 1893 - 462 pages
...at Greshamsbury, that his rate of pay was to be seven-and-sixpence a visit within a circuit of live miles, with a proportionally-increased charge at proportionallyincreas...the last friendly grasp of the hand had been made iprecious by the touch of gold. Whereas, that fellow Thorne would lug out half-a-crown from his breeches...
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Dr. Thorne

Anthony Trollope - 1900 - 422 pages
...something low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this; so, at least, said the children of ^Jsculapius gathered together in conclave at Barchester. In the...the last friendly grasp of the hand had been made precious by the touch of gold. Whereas, that fellow Thorne would lug out half-a-crown from his breeches...
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Volume 4

Anthony Trollope - 1903 - 412 pages
...low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this ; so, at least, said the children of ^Esculapius gathered together in conclave at Barchester. In the...the last friendly grasp of the hand had been made precious by the touch of gold. Whereas, that fellow Thorne would lug out half-a-crown from his breeches...
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Doctor Thorne, Volume 1

Anthony Trollope - 1924 - 408 pages
...low, mean, unprofessional, and democratic in this ; so, at least, said the children ot yEsculapius gathered together in conclave at Barchester. In the...aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand had b5en made precious by the touch of gold. Whereas, that fellow Thorne would lug out half-a-crown from...
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Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for ...

Anne Digby - 2002 - 376 pages
...distances), and his failure to make the monetary relationships with the patient unobtrusive. A |.in ... ..in should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right hand won doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles...
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Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power

Lilian R. Furst - 1998 - 310 pages
...dignity of a learned profession" is uncovered as a hollow pretense when he expounds his guiding tenet: "A physician should take his fee without letting his...had been made more precious by the touch of gold" (32). This is a masterful way of obliquely exposing Fillgrave's hypocrisy, using the same means as...
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Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine

19?? - 918 pages
...scandalizes his colleagues by offering change when paid for consultations, is firmly put in his place. 'The true physician should hardly be aware that the...had been made more precious by the touch of gold.' Perhaps financial transactions removed the awe and fear by reducing the doctor to the status of tradesman,...
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The Healing Tradition: Reviving the Soul of Western Medicine

David Greaves - 2004 - 188 pages
...acquires intellectual credibility rather than being viewed as the mere concoction of routine recipes. ... it would have behoved him, as a physician, had he...the last friendly grasp of the hand had been made precious by the touch of gold. Whereas, that fellow Thorne would lug out half-a-crown from his breeches...
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Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations

Peter McDonald - 2004 - 228 pages
...the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. 31 October (1905) Anthony Trollope 1815-82 English novelist A physician should take his fee without letting his...the last friendly grasp of the hand had been made precious by the touch of gold. Doctor Thorne Ch. til Théodore Tronchin 1709-81 Swiss physician from...
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