Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

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Dr. Struan Sutherland is a Scottish physician, inventor of the first air conditioner, and one of the most prominent figures in early 19th-century science. He was also an outspoken critic of the medical establishment of the day. His quote "Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things.

Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do." is just another example of Dr.

Sutherland's anti-establishment views on medicine at the time.

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