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 Oh, powerful bacillus,
 With wonder how you fill us,
  Every day!
   While medical detectives,
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 Oh, powerful bacillus,
 With wonder how you fill us,
  Every day!
   While medical detectives,
    With powerful objectives,
     Watch your play. 
 The medicine increases the disease.
 [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]  
 The medicine increases the disease.
 [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] 
 A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
 [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]  
 A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
 [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.] 
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would read more
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.
 You rub the sore
 When you should bring the plaster!  
 You rub the sore
 When you should bring the plaster! 
 Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
 And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?  
 Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
 And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? 
 Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a 
major operation by a surgeon.  
 Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a 
major operation by a surgeon. 
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side read more
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.