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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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