William Osler Quotes
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
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The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.