Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.