The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has” — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. — William Osler Copy Share Image
“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.” — William Osler Copy Share Image
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health… — William Osler Copy Share Image
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable.… — William Osler Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share
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… — William Osler Copy Share
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people… — William Osler Copy Share
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless… — William Osler Copy Share
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler Copy Share
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. — William Osler Copy Share
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — William Osler Copy Share
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new… — William Osler Copy Share
