Cure always depends on chance, on some fortunate circumstance, on some bright idea of the doctor's.

And so you will understand that all the people who come and discuss here make me laugh when they talk about the absolute laws of science.

Where are those laws in medicine?
I should like to have them shown to me." He did not wish to say any more, but his passion carried him away, so he went on: "I told you that I had become a believer--nevertheless, to speak the truth, I understand very well why this worthy Doctor Bonamy is so little affected, and why he continues calling upon doctors in all parts of the world to come and study his miracles.

The more doctors that might come, the less likelihood there would be of the truth being established in the inevitable battle between contradictory diagnoses and methods of treatment.

If men cannot agree about a visible sore, they surely cannot do so about an internal lesion the existence of which will be admitted by some, and denied by others.