I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
In the 1960s, I continued the work on the secretory process using in parallel or in succession two different approaches. The first relied exclusively on cell fractionation, and was developed in...
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an...
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for
I undertook for my doctoral research the problem of using the atomic beam resonance method to measure the quadrupole moment of the sodium nucleus.
The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.
Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from...
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
Medicine rests upon four pillars philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Murphy's medicine laws: As soon as an EMS Rule is accepted as absolute, an exception to that Rule will immediately occur.
Murphy's medicine laws: The true value of any rookie EMT, when expressed numerically, will always be a negative number. The value of this number may be found by simply having the rookie grade his...
Murphy's medicine laws: A virtually infinite number of wide-eyed and inquisitive school-aged children can climb into the back of any Ambulance, and, given the opportunity, invariably will.
Murphy's medicine laws: Any Ambulance, whether it is responding to a call or traveling to a Hospital, with Lights and Siren, will be totally ignored by all motorists, pedestrians, and dogs which...
Murphy's medicine laws: Always assume that any Physician found at the scene of an emergency is a Gynecologist, until proven otherwise.
Murphy's medicine laws: Any bystander who offers you help will give you none.
Murphy's medicine laws: The weight of the patient that you are about to transport increases by the square of the sum of the number of floors which must be ascended to reach the patient plus the...
Murphy's medicine laws: The number of distraught and uncooperative relatives surrounding any given patient varies exponentially with the seriousness of the patient's illness or injury.
Murphy's medicine laws: The amount of space which is needed to work on a patient varies inversely with the amount of space which is available to work on that patient.
Murphy's medicine laws: As the seriousness of any given injury increases, the availability of light to examine that injury decreases.