بالمناسبة، اغلب مبادئ طب باريس ما زالت ذات فائدة اليوم لأن الطب والتعليم الطبي الحديث كلها متأثرة بيه

Using numerical methods and probability, Pierre Louis (1787–1872) revealed that it made no difference to the outcome of pneumonia whether [bloodletting] was performed early or late, or whether large or small amounts of blood were let; in fact, nothing had much effect. Likewise, no therapies did much good with various fevers. Louis had sometimes been dubbed a therapeutic nihilist; his early medical experiences in Russia had indeed taught him the sobering fact that medicine rarely cured. Corvisart mused that medicine ‘is not the art of curing diseases’. Leading his editor to call his works ‘a meditation on death’.

— The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

*كأنك بالانتباه تُطيل عمر الشيء*

It's a synthetic opioid used as an analgesic for severe pain (as in cancer patients)

The Little Art Connoisseur, 1863
August Friedrich Siegert

— All Yesterdays