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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 The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

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Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.

Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1950)

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 fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest, and not inferior to either in her mission.

Address at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1897)

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

The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

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