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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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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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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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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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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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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself it is the silent influence of character on character.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
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