Medicine
- October 12 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time, at the Children's Hospital, Boston.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)