The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

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.'

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

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.

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

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

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.