Soap And Water And Common Sense Are

For The General Practitioner A Well-used Library Is One Of The Few Correctives Of The Premature Senility Which Is So Apt To Take Him.

Breathes There A Man With Soul So Dead That It Does Not Glow At The Thought Of What The Men Of His Blood Have Done And Suffered To Make His Country What It Is? There Is Room, Plenty Of Room, For Proper Pride Of Land And Birth. What I Inveigh Against Is A Cursed Spirit Of Intolerance, Conceived In Distrust And Bred In Ignorance, That Makes The Mental Attitude Perennially Antagonistic, Even Bitterly Antagonistic, To Everything Foreign, That Subordinates Everywhere The Race To The Nation, Forgetting The Higher Claims Of Human Brotherhood.

The Practice Of Medicine Is An Art, Not A Trade; A Calling, Not A Business; A Calling In Which Your Heart Will Be Exercised Equally With Your Head.

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.

I Desire No Other Epitaph - No Hurry About It, I May Say - Than The Statement That I Taught Medical Students In The Wards, As I Regard This As By Far The Most Useful And Important Work I Have Been Called Upon To Do.