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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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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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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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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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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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