Medicine
- William John Little produces his doctoral dissertation on tenotomy, the first description of this form of surgery.
Read more about this topic: 1837 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)