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Laughter is the music of life.

William Osler

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil a relish of knowledge and you put life into his work.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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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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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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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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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
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Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
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Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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