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"Every eye is an eye. When you are doing surgery there, that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on …"

"We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by for…"

"We ought not to be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes fro…"

"Nachdem mich das Ergebniss der Chlorwaschungen davon überzeugt hat, was die wahre Ursache des Kindbettfiebers sei, te…"

"Die Geburtshilfe ist derjenige Zweig des Medicin, welcher die höchste Aufgabe derselben, nämlich Rettung des bedrohte…"

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