Particular Facts Are Never Scientific; Only Generalization

I Do Not ... Reject The Use Of Statistics In Medicine, But I Condemn Not Trying To Get Beyond Them And Believing In Statistics As The Foundation Of Medical Science. ... Statistics ... Apply Only To Cases In Which The Cause Of The Facts Observed Is Still [uncertain Or] Indeterminate. ... There Will Always Be Some Indeterminism ... In All The Sciences, And More In Medicine Than In Any Other. But Man's Intellectual Conquest Consists In Lessening And Driving Back Indeterminism In Proportion As He Gains Ground For Determinism By The Help Of The Experimental Method.

Men Who Have Excessive Faith In Their Theories ... Make Poor Observations, Because They Choose Among The Results Of Their Experiments Only What Suits Their Object, Neglecting Whatever Is Unrelated To It And Carefully Setting Aside Everything Which Might Tend Toward The Idea They Wish To Combat

The Terrain Is Everything; The Germ Is Nothing.

The First Requirement In Using Statistics Is That The Facts Treated Shall Be Reduced To Comparable Units.

The First Entirely Vital Action, So Termed Because It Is Not Effected Outside The Influence Of Life, Consists In The Creation Of The Glycogenic Material In The Living Hepatic Tissue. The Second Entirely Chemical Action, Which Can Be Effected Outside The Influence Of Life, Consists In The Transformation Of The Glycogenic Material Into Sugar By Means Of A Ferment.