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 an… - William Osler

Every one of you will have to face the ordeal of every student in this generation who sooner or later tries to mix the waters of science with the oil of faith. You can have a good deal of both if you only keep them separate. The worry comes from the attempt at mixture.

Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.

In the history of medicine, there are few instances in which a disease has been more accurately, more graphically or more briefly described.