William Osler

Scientist

1849-07-12

Books by William Osler

The principles and practice of medicine

designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine
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A way of life
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Aequanimitas

with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine
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Quotes by William Osler

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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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.
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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.
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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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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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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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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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.
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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 value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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One finger in the throat and one in the rectum make a good diagnostician.
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No man is really happy or safe without a hobby ...
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It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.
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We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from life.
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... the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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