We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.
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Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's Go home and cut it let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.
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There is no short cut, nor 'royal road,' to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.
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Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.
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