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Quotation from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
“I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory”
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927)
Bernard's argument that clinical observation must be completed by experimental analysis of normal and pathological life.
Citation: "I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory" — Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927). (id bernard-introduction-to-experimental-medicine-q7)
Portrait: Claude Bernard 5, Unknown, Public domain.
