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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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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.
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