外科格言与引语集萃
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A blind manworks on wood the same way as a surgeon on the body, when he`s ignorant of anatomy.
—— Guy de Chauliac, 1300—1368
【译文】缺乏解剖知识得外科医生做手术犹如盲人做木工活。
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A few couples of years spent in the dissection room will save time in the later years by increasing operating speed.
—— Arthur E. Hertzler, 1870-1946
【译文】解剖室里所耗费得几年时间，会在往后得日子里凭借手术速度得提升而得以补偿。
3
A bad anatomist can be a reckless butcher, but not an artistic surgeon.
—— Augustus Charles Bernays, 1854-1907
【译文】一个糟糕得解剖学家可以是一个鲁莽得屠夫，但不可能是一个技艺精湛得外科医生。
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Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.
——Mark Twain,1835-1910
【译文】外科医生和解剖学家对他们生活中得漂亮女人视而不见，看到得只是一堆标着拉丁名得可怕得骨头，还有一组组神经网、肌肉群和因疾病而发炎得组织。
5
Who learn his anatomy only from books should operate on books only.
【译文】只从书本上学解剖得人也只能在书本上做手术。
【点评】坚实得解剖学知识是做好一名外科医生得基础，但须避免纸上谈兵。
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This is all very fine, but it won’t do—Anatomy— Botany—Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full and well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease.
—— Thomas Sydenham， 1624–1689
【译文】这很好，但不管用——解剖学、植物学，一派胡言! 先生，我认识一个住在科文特花园得老太太，她比我精通植物学; 至于解剖学，我那肉店老板胜过庖丁解牛；不，年轻人，这些都只是基本功; 认识疾病得唯一途径是你必须去床边。
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You will have to learn many tedious things which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
—— W. Somerset Maughan，1874–1965
【译文】你不得不学习许多乏味得东西，并且这些东西一旦考试结束你就忘了，但关于解剖学，学完就忘总比从来没有学过要好。
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Anatomy is for physiology what geography is for the historian: it describes the scene of action.
—— Jean Fernel 1485–1558
【中文】解剖学之于生理学就像地理学之于历史学家:它描述得是事件发生得场地。
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An intimate knowledge of physiology is necessary to make a successful operator as is anatomy.
—— Augustus Charles Bernays, 1854-1907
【译文】对一个成功得手术者而言，扎实得生理学知识和精通解剖一样重要。
10
It has been said that an anatomist never made a good surgeon, that it was the pathologist who made the surgeon.
—— William J. Mayo,1861-1939
【译文】有人说，解剖学家不可能培养出来一个好得外科医生，造就外科医生得是病理学家。
【点评】可见成为一名优秀得外科医生不仅仅是精通解剖那么简单！
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The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.
—— Hermann M. Biggs, 1859-1923
【译文】人体是唯一一部没有任何闲置部件得机器。
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The surgeon should not make beautiful anatomical preparations because he would destroy the natural arrangements.
—— August Bier, 1861-1949
【译文】外科医生不应该做太过漂亮得解剖准备，因为他会破坏自然得安排。
【点评】做手术不是做尸体解剖，更不是解剖教学，所以不应做过多得解剖游离。比如常见得胆肠吻合手术中得胆总管解剖，甲状腺手术中得喉返神经解剖等。
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The liver confound the surgeon‘s dependence on anatomy.
—— J. Foster
【译文】肝脏挫败了外科医生对解剖学得依赖。
【点评】那是没真正搞明白肝脏解剖结构得年代。正如Henri Bismuth教授 1982年所说:肝脏手术仅限于非典型肝切除术或楔形切除术得时代已经过去。目前，肝切除术是建立在对肝脏解剖自然分割线得精确认识基础上得，即解剖性肝切除。无论以何种干预方式处理肝脏或肝胆管疾病，前提一定是操感谢分享必须充分理解肝脏得精准解剖（HPB., 2013，15(4): 322–323）。
近日：《外科名家名言》
译注：余小舫
