Medicine
- Hans Asperger describes Asperger syndrome.
- David S. Sheridan invents the disposable plastic tracheal tube catheter.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“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)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“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)