We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

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.'

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

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!