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Abraham Flexner Quotes: A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
         

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.


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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.



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