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“The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.”

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Wilfred Trotter was a renowned British surgeon. Born on November 3, 1872, and passing away on November 25, 1939, Trotter is known for his contributions to vascular surgery, particularly in the treatment of vascular diseases. more

“To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.”

Body Culture Grows Growth Animal Known Conditions Materials Products Pure Prove Disease Isolated Introducing Organisms Invasion Morbid Multiplication Tuberculosis

Book:Essays of Robert Koch

Source: Essays of Robert Koch

“The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.”

Humans Whole Science Human Beings

Author:Lorenz Oken

“And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.”

Humans Science Lord Masters

Author:Rene Descartes

“All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.”

Mind Humans Made Matter Body Hands Science Simple Perfect Complicated Invention Mutual Devices Human Mind Mechanism Delicate Toys Accurate Human Body Adjustment Intricate Human Hands

Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.”

Humans Science Asks Clear Calling Notion Spokes Meaningless Annoyed Appease Unintelligent

Author:Peter Medawar

“Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.”

Men Humans States Science Order Natural Human Beings Animal Effects Strange Involved Creatures Universal Plant Species Defined Inevitable Perpetual Minerals Flux Monstrosity

Author:John Dewey

“The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.”

Humans Soul Body Science Force United Human Soul Magnetic Magnetic Force

Book:De Magnete

Source: De Magnete

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