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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
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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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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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