Michael Bliss > Quotes

“With insulin, the stone was rolled away, and diabetes became a matter of the quality of life, not the speed of death.”
― Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin

“The pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.”
― Michael Bliss

“Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.”
― Michael Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine

“An unusual problem developed when a case of smallpox was brought to the hospital. Smallpox was too contagious to be allowed on the wards. Its victims had to be specially isolated. But where? Osler drove the patient up to the mayor of Hamilton’s home, a sure way of getting action. Special accommodation was arranged in a secluded house. Osler visited the patient twice a day until he died, and then did an autopsy on the spot, helped by the German housekeeper.”
― Michael Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine

“Surely this is truth stranger than fiction, or it is the truth that makes fiction plausible.”
― Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin