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Clifford Allbutt Biography

Physician

Clifford Allbutt was a renowned British physician known for his contributions to medical education and clinical practice. His research in physiology, pathology, and diagnostics had a profound impact on modern medicine.

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Author:Clifford Allbutt

“It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.”

Growth Forgotten Syphilis

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“We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.”

Thinking Body Certain Health Development Periods Healthy Disease Isolated Phases Disturbance Healthy Body

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“In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside the laws of human nature, as to his disillusion many a lawgiver has discovered.”

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“I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Process Disease Sick Stress Chains

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“Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.”

Deals Medicine Circles Nevertheless Maids Blooming

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“Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.”

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“Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.”

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“The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.”

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Author:Clifford Allbutt

About the Author

Born: July 20, 1836
Died: February 22, 1925
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 9

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