"[The master to the student:] I've a gift of my own, as strong as yours... I can detect a man in whom there may be a p…"

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is…"

"[The medical student to the master, in 11th century Persia:] But if you were able to look within the center of the ea…"

"Except it be a lover, no one is more interesting as an object of study than a student."

"Everywhere now the medical student is welcomed as an honored member of the guild. There was a time, I confess, and it…"

"Universities, like cathedrals and parliaments, are a product of the Middle Ages."

"It is...in institutions that the [medieval] university tradition is most direct.... the notion of a curriculum of stu…"

"[Regarding the registration of Vesalius into medical school in the year 1533] Vesalius matriculated in the medical sc…"

""Mr. Rapp [a medical student], what is the difference between an element and a compound body?" Mr. Rapp is again obli…"

"The white coats...were symbol and proof that medicine was a guild, with a strict hierarchy, with steps up the stairwa…"