Medical Aphorisms

■ Life is short，and Art long;the crisis fleeting;experience perilous，and decision difficult.The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself，but also to make the patient，the attendants，and externals cooperate.

——H ippocrates

■ There is no more contradiction between the science of medicine and the art of medicine than in the science of aeronautics and the art of flying.

——Dr.Francis W.Peabody

■ Eat not to dullness;drink not to elevation.

——Benjamin Franklin

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

——William Osler

■ One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

——William Osler

■ If you listen carefully to the patient they will tell you the diagnosis.

——William Osler

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

——William Osler