The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. William Osler More Quotes by William Osler More Quotes From William Osler Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. William Osler aggravation hard-work dust We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences William Osler mind two fall If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. William Osler medicine might art It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. William Osler easier book 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. William Osler humdrum routine may Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. William Osler disease real suffering Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. William Osler vocation soul lying It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice. William Osler health home men We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. William Osler loss food life 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. William Osler omission new-life men The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship. William Osler essentials Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health. William Osler should-have air exercise We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000? William Osler doctors simple believe By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. William Osler honesty integrity character Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable. William Osler wife girl wine Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. William Osler humanity war enemy 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. William Osler medicine important men Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler soap common-sense water But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways. William Osler doctors tragedy men To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases. William Osler teaching teacher school
