7 William Osler Quotes on Medicine

William Osler quotes on medicine

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

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

17. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

18. There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

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

22. 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.

23. The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.