Blood Work Quotes

“Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown. —William Harvey, De motu cordis (1628)”
― Holly Tucker, Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

“Montpellier produced nearly 40 percent of all physicians in France, but the university had a troubled reputation as a party school where medical students were just as likely to drink and cavort with prostitutes as they were to learn the intricacies of the Hippocratic corpus.”
― Holly Tucker, Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution