"The history of medicine, of all the branches of that art, is the one to which least attention is devoted by physician…"

"Medicine and theology, now it would seem irreconcilably at variance, were in their early periods of development most …"

"To the naturalist, it [the history of medicine] teaches how the branches of his science, which lift their heads so pr…"

"An acquaintance with the history of his science is... especially indispensable to the practical physician, if he woul…"

"We prize infinitely less the fact that history, among almost all people, presents to our eyes the immortal gods as th…"

"Medicine is a science which hath been... more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labou…"

"To attempt to isolate the history of medicine, and to comprehend its curious ebbs and flows of doctrine from medical …"

"When we take an extended view of the progress of medicine, tracing it from its scanty sources, in the most remote per…"

"The improvement in the healing art has been nearly in proportion to the advancement of the other arts of life, and to…"

"Willis combined the physician's expert anatomical sophistication with the fluent use of an interpretive apparatus tha…"