William Osler

that we could be free of an infinitude of maladies both of body and mind, and even also possibly of the infirmities of age, if we had sufficient knowledge of their causes, and of all the remedies with which nature has provided us.

the ordinary non-medical mind, there is still something mysterious about sickness, something outside the ordinary standard.

basis of medicine is sympathy and the desire to help others, and whatever is done with this end must be called medicine