That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

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

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

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.