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[…] the virtues of a medicine depend less upon its intrinsic properties and powers than on the sagacity of the physician who administers it; just as the efficiency of firearms depends less upon the explosives and the missile they contain than on the judgment and accuracy of aim of the man who discharges them.

Alfred Stillé

We should be very careful to distinguish between our knowledge of phenomena and our interpretations of them.

Alfred Stillé

Alfred Stillé

Alfred Stillé

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Born: October 30, 1813

Died: September 24, 1900 (aged 86)

Bio: Alfred Stillé was an American physician. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at Yale, being put on probation for participating in the Conic Sections Rebellion, but nonetheless received an A.B.

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