Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons Etc; Etc, Vol. 5: Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science
The lawyer is judged by the virtue of his pleading, and not by the issue of the cause. The master of the ship is judged by the directing his course aright, and not by the fortune of the voyage. But the physician, and perhaps the politician, hath no particular acts demonstrative of his ability, but is judged most by the event. - bacon.
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