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In carrying on the grand work of improving national health,…
Quote byElizabeth Blackwell · 1821–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Medicine and Morality (1881), p. 757.
English (original)
In carrying on the grand work of improving national health, extirpating loathsome disease, discovering and removing the causes of disease, the distinction must be carefully drawn between the object to be accomplished and the means by which it shall be attained. The object is a grand one; the method of accomplishing it must be equally so, i.e., it must be guided by moral principle.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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