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• Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

  ― Paracelsus
  Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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• My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.

  ― Barry Marshall
  Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• tuberculosis
• self-conceit
• difference
• treatments
• generally
• brought

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