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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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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 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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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
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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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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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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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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade a calling, not a business a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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