Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

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

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

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 practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.