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I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.
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Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Silas Weir Mitchell

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