The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional. — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust,… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development. — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
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