Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

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

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

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