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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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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."

"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."

"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."

"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."

"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
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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."

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."

"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."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

"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."

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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