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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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More quotes by William Osler
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
William Osler
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
William Osler
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
William Osler
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
William Osler
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
William Osler
We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William Osler
Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
William Osler
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
William Osler
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
William Osler
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
William Osler
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
William Osler
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.
William Osler
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler
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.'
William Osler
Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
William Osler
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
William Osler
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler