Medicine
- approx. date - Jakob Nufer, a Swiss pig gelder, supposedly performs the first recorded successful caesarean section on a living woman.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)