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:
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)