"People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact."

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“Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.”

“It is the great mystery of life itself which is at the bottom of all the mysterious language we are obliged to employ concerning it.”

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“It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.”

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