A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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