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Sir William Osler
(12 Jul 1849 - 29 Dec 1919)
Canadian physician, medical educator and author whose clinical teaching, research and personality strongly influenced medical practice, including encouraging a warmer bedside manner between doctors and their patients. He wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), one of the most successful textbooks in medical history.
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Science Quotes by Sir William Osler (2)
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
— Sir William Osler
In Aequanimitas (1906), 299.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
Indicating that varicose veins are hereditary.
Indicating that varicose veins are hereditary.
— Sir William Osler
In W. B. Bean, Sir William Osler: Aphorisms, 146. In Mark E. Silverman et al. (eds.), The Quotable Osler (2003), 127.
