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William Osler
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„Shakespeare gets to the root of the alcohol question in his well-known statement—’Good wine is a good, familiar creature if it be well used.“
„While in general use for centuries, one good result of the recent development of mental healing has been to call attention to its great value as a measure to be carefully and scientifically applied in suitable cases. My experience has been that of the unconscious rather than the deliberate faith healer. Phenomenal, even what could be called miraculous, cures are not very uncommon. Like others, I have had cases any one of which, under suitable conditions, could have been worthy of a shrine or made the gem of a pilgrimage.“
„Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.“
„There seems to be no limit to the possibilities of scientific medicine, and while philanthropists are turning to it as to the hope of humanity, philosophers see, as in some far-off vision, a science from which may come in the prophetic words of the Son of Sirach, “Peace over all the earth.”“
„Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today … The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.“
„My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.“
„When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.“
„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.“
„Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.“
„Literature is full of examples of remarkable cures through the influence of the imagination, which is only an active phase of faith.“
„There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.“
„Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.“
„We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succession.“
„To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.“
„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.“
„Faith is indeed one of the miracles of human nature which science is as ready to accept as it is to study its marvellous effects.“
„The critical sense and sceptical attitude of the Hippocratic school laid the foundations of modern medicine on broad lines“
„All the more honour to those who have with honest effort striven to pierce the veil and explore the mysteries which lie behind it.“
„A man must have faith in himself to be of any use in the world.“
„My experience has been that of the unconscious rather than the deliberate faith healer. Phenomenal, even what could be called miraculous, cures are not very uncommon. Like others, I have had cases any one of which, under suitable conditions, could have been worthy of a shrine or made the germ of a pilgrimage.“
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