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Quotation from The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
“I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors”
The Advancement of Learning, Book II, X.7 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500)
The opening of Bacon's argument that physicians should attend and ease the dying rather than abandon cases judged hopeless.
Citation: "I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors" — Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II, X.7 (Henry Morley ed. (1893), Project Gutenberg #5500). (id bacon-advancement-of-learning-q7)
