“It should not for a moment be supposed that cultivation of the intellect leads a man to shrink from inflicting pain. Many educated men are no more humane, are in fact far less so, than many comparatively uneducated people.”

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 365

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American surgeon 1818–1890

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