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Johann Hermann Baas
(24 Oct 1838 - 10 Nov 1909)
German physician and ophthalmologist who also wrote on medical history. His Grundriss der Geschichte der Medizin und des heilenden Standes was for a time the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine.
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Science Quotes by Johann Hermann Baas (1 quote)
Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.
— Johann Hermann Baas
As written in Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession, translated by Henry Ebenezer Handerson (1889), 843. The expression 'daughter of medicine' has been applied by other authors to other disciplines. Baas may have simply recorded this example from common use.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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