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.'

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.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

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

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

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.