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Ignorance is more immediately fatal in surgery than in medicine, or rather, mistakes are more easily apparent to the layman.

Henry E. Sigerist

We must also keep in mind that discoveries are usually not made by one man alone, but that many brains and many hands are needed before a discovery is made for which one man receives the credit.

Henry E. Sigerist

Illness, in general, is not a good literary subject.

Henry E. Sigerist

Henry E. Sigerist

Henry E. Sigerist

Born: April 7, 1891

Died: March 17, 1957 (aged 65)

Bio: Henry Ernest Sigerist was a Swiss medical historian.

Known for:

A history of medicine (1951)
Civilization and disease (1943)
On the sociology of medicine
A Fifteenth Century Surgeon (1923)

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