There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

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.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'