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While respect for life will dictate to the surgeon the greatest prudence — will counsel him to attempt no operation which he would not be willing to perform on his own child — it will also teach him, that if the extremes of boldness are to be shunned, pusillanimity is not the necessary alternative.

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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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John Murray Carnochan

John Murray Carnochan
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Born: July 4, 1817
Died: October 28, 1887 (aged 70)
Bio: John Murray Carnochan was an American surgeon who performed the first successful neurosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia.

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