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William Osler

The Evolution of Modern Medicine / A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913

  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    you have operated conscientiously on the rich for a proper fee, and on the poor for charity, you need not play the monk, nor make pilgrimages for your soul."
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    He lays down four conditions necessary for the making of a surgeon—the first is that he must be learned, the second, expert, the third that he should be clever, and the fourth that he should be well disciplined.
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    Firstly, to satisfy his own friends; secondly, to exercise his best mental powers; and thirdly, to be saved from the oblivion incident to old age."
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    this way arose two different types of mediaeval university. The universities of Northern Italy were largely controlled by students, who were grouped in different "nations." They arranged the lectures and had control of the appointment of teachers. On the other hand, in the universities founded on the Paris model the masters had control of the studies, though the students, also in nations, managed their own affairs.
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    -Mansur Gilafun in 1283
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    Take heed to the limits of your capacity and you will arrive at a knowledge of the truth! How true is the saying:—Work ever and to each will come that measure of success for which Nature has designed him."
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    , temperance and repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the school reached its height, and that remarkable genius, Frederick II, laid down regulations for a preliminary study extending over three years, and a course in medicine for five years, including surgery.
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    is difficult to understand how Galen missed the circulation of the blood. He knew that the valves of the heart determined the direction of the blood that entered and left the organ, but he did not appreciate that it was a pump for distributing the blood, regarding it rather as a fireplace from which the innate heat of the body was derived.
  • Mugisa Pius Edward (Dr. Edds)has quotedlast year
    may remember that through the errors of Praxagoras and Erasistratus, the arteries were believed to contain air and got their name on that account: Galen showed by experiment that the arteries contain blood and not air.
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