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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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"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."
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"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
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"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."
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"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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"I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world."
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"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
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"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
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"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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"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."
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Explore more quotes by William Osler
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
Art
"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."
Truth
"The future is today."
Future
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
Effort
"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
"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
Success
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
Ignorance
"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."
Animals
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."
Age
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
Life
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