Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Osler: Instruments of Learning

Observation plus thinking has given us the vast stores of knowledge we now possess of the structure of the bodies of living creatures in health and disease. There have been two inherent difficulties - to get men to see straight and to get men to think clearly; but in spite of the fraility of the instrument, the method has been one of the most powerful ever placed in the hands of man.

Glasgow Medical Journal 1911(76):321-333.

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