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"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."

"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."

"The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians."

"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."

"If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives."

"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."

"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."

"Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick."
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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."
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