"Osler has had more influence on the practice of modern medicine than any other individual in this and the last century. He most successfully blended his universal education and knowledge and excellent scientific background in medicine to simply state better about every disease he encountered than anyone else could. His name was placed upon many syndromes and diseases discovered by others. Yet he did describe many clinical, pathological, and laboratory findings of great importance. His contributions to pediatrics were also extensive in cardiology, infectious disease, endocrinology, genetics, etc."

   [  Ref:- Sir William Osler's Emphasis on Physical Diagnosis and Listening to Symptoms:  Billy F. Andrews, MD ]

 Quotations :

“Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well." ”

-The practice of medicine is an art, based on science.

- There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

- The good observer is not limited to the large hospital.

- Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

- Observations are made with accuracy and care, no pains are spared, nothing is thought a trouble in the investigation of a problem. The facts are looked at in connection with similar ones, their relation to others is studied, and the experience of the recorder is compared with that of others who have worked upon the question.

- Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell and know that by practice alone can you become experts.

- Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the class room. Let not your conception of manifestations of disease come from work heard in the lecture room or read from the book: see and then research, compare and control. But see first.

- One swallow does not make a summer , but one tophus makes gout and one crescent, malaria.

- Never forget to look at the back of a patient. Always look at the feet. Looking at a woman's legs has often saved her life.