Se não fosse pela terrível hemorragia que tão frequentemente as acompanha, as operações seriam despojadas de quase todo o seu terror, e poucos homens hesitariam em realizá-las.
Original: If it were not for the frightful hemorrhage which so frequently attends them, operations would be robbed of nearly all their terror, and few men would shrink from their performance.
Fonte: A Companion to Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon — Sangramento e Hemostasia
Samuel Gross