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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
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It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
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The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
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The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists…
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…
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