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

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.'

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

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!

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.