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.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

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

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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