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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. "
Books
Go
Medicine
" In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. "
Broken
Seeking
Truth
" It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. "
Important
Know
Medical
" It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. "
Much
Simpler
Than
" Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. "
Look
Wise
Thought
" Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. "
Uncertainty
Art
Medicine
" No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. "
Teacher
Bubble
Blown
" No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. "
Men
Truth
Content
" 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. "
Know
You
Practice
" One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. "
Medicine
First
Masses
" Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. "
Best
Water
Common Sense
" The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. "
Work
Best
Preparation
" The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. "
Man
Medicine
Desire
" The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. "
First
Physician
Medicine
" The future is today. "
Future
Today
" The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. "
Patient
Good
Great
" The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. "
Greater
Ignorance
Dogmatism
" The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. "
Two
Passions
Get
" The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. "
Tomorrow
Age
Become
" 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. "
Important
Know
Man
" There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. "
More
Than
Disease
" There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. "
More
Art
Difficult
" 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. "
Double
Age
Three
" The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. "
Much
Experience
Seeing
" The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. "
First Step
Success
Become
" The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. "
Life
Old
Physician
" To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. "
Alone
Effort
Struggle
" To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. "
Study
Without
Go
" 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. "
Know
Disease
Two
" We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. "
Life
Add
Get
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