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

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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.'

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

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