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

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 good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.