Dr. Heidegger - Old and wise physician who is the protagonist of the story.

He commands the wisest physician at the Temple of Karnak to prepare him a medicine that kills or cures at once.

And if you were ill, whom would you rather have as a companion in a dangerous illness-a wise physician, or an ignorant one?

A wise physician would no more add a drop of laudanum to an already overcharged body than a gunner would take a naked light into a powder-magazine.

He was also cast as a lawyer or journalist and occasionally played a gangster, but his archetypal role was as a wise and compassionate physician.

What wise physician have we ever seen Moved with a frantic man?

I am sworn of the peace; you have show'd yourself a wise physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient churchman.

The noble pilot and the wise physician, who "is worth many another man"-in the similitude of these let us endeavour to discover some image of the king.

The wise ancient Egyptian physician knew when a patient was beyond help.

There is a medicine, potent, as a wise physician has assured me, and almost divine in its efficacy.