Quote#Wisdom
I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its…
Quote bySilas Weir Mitchell · 1829–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.
— Silas Weir Mitchell
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