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Osler On Duty

Fever, famine and war was one of William Osler's quotes.[1]

In 1896, at the American Medical Association, Sir William Osler presented "The study of the Fevers of the the South",[2][3] in which he stated

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

The quote was used by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm in his book Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, published in 2017.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Gisolfi, Carl V.; Mora, Professor of Human Physiology Francisco; Mora, Francisco; Teruel, Francisco Mora; Gisolfi, Louise (2000). The Hot Brain: Survival, Temperature, and the Human Body. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262071987.
  2. ^ Bryan, C. S. (November 1996). "Fever, famine, and war: William Osler as an infectious diseases specialist" (PDF). Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 23 (5): 1139–1149. doi:10.1093/clinids/23.5.1139. ISSN 1058-4838. PMID 8922814.
  3. ^ Osler, William (23 May 1896). "The Study of the Fevers of the South". Journal of the American Medical Association. XXVI (21): 999–1004. doi:10.1001/jama.1896.02430730001001. ISSN 0002-9955.
  4. ^ Osterholm, Michael T.; Olshaker, Mark (2017). Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316343688.