William Osler Quote

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.


"Books and Men" in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1901).


To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.