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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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 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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
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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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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 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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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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