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William Osler Quotes

Canadian - Scientist | July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919

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

Good Great Medical Physician Patient

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Science Art Medicine Uncertainty

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Sea Medicine Go Sails Without Books

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Work Today Best Preparation Tomorrow

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Medicine Physician First Take Masses

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Medical Know Important More Patient

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sea Medical Sail Go Study Without

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Buy Books Read Easier Than Simpler

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Medicine Physician First Take Masses

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Wise Thought Speech Look Nothing

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.

Life Law Know React Two Same

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 Man Medicine Know Important

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