Quote #15
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
More from William Osler
- One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
- No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with …
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
- There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
- Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith-the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.
- 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 i…