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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."
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"Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat."
"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis."
"Doctors sometimes don't know what they do!"
"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
"But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind.[Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]"
"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it."
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