David Macbeth Moir Quotes

1798–1851 Scotland

David Macbeth Moir (January 5, 1798 – July 6, 1851), Scottish physician and writer, was born at Musselburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, taking his degree in 1816.

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Also known as: George Macbeth Moir

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Disease is almost as old as man himself; and so must have been medicine.

Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine (1831)

Stars are the Daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky,
Beheld by all, and everywhere,
Bright prototypes on high.

To me, through every season dearest;
In every scene, by day, by night,
Thou, present to my mind appearest
A quenchless star, forever bright;
My solitary sole delight:
Where’er I am, by shore—at sea—
I think of thee.

Medicine appears to have been very early seized upon by the priests, as an instrument of great power; and thus mixed up and blended with religious superstitions, it was practised by a sect of the Egyptian priesthood, under the denomination of Pastopheri.

Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine (1831)

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