Quote#Death
When the patient is dead, it was the disease killed him, not the…
Quote byHugh Henry Brackenridge · 1748–1816
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Modern Chivalry (1792), vol. 2, bk. 2, ch. 9 (ed. 1815).
English (original)
When the patient is dead, it was the disease killed him, not the Doctor. Dead men tell no tales.
— Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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