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Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919 Age 70) was a Canadian physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and described as the Father of Modern Medicine (Osler himself thought Avicenna held this honour). Osler was a physician, clinician, pathologist, teacher, diagnostician, bibliophile, historian, classicist, essayist, conversationalist, organizer, manager and author. Osler was born in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario), and raised... full article at wikipedia

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Jul 12, 1849

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Bradford West Gwillimbury

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

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