Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Quotes

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Those of us who have the duty of training the raising generation of doctors must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be top "up to date." It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art, and cleverness before common sense, from treating patients as cases, and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

It is unnecessary — perhaps dangerous — in medicine to be too clever.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

Don't scrape your insides with much roughage as it is more likely to do harm than good. Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

Born: October 28, 1871

Died: February 12, 1960 (aged 88)

Bio: Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet, FRCP was a Scottish physician and paediatrician, who is well known as the original editor of the medical books, "Clinical Methods" and "Food and the Principles of Dietetics".

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