The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

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.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

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