The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.