The Desire To Take Medicine

No Dreams, No Visions, No Delicious Fantasies, No Castles In The Air, With Which, As The Old Song So Truly Says, Hearts Are Broken, Heads Are Turned.

It Is Much Simpler To Buy Books Than To Read Them And Easier To Read Them Than To Absorb Their Contents.

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.

Nature, The Great Moloch, Which Exacts A Frightful Tax Of Human Blood, Sparing Neither Young Nor Old; Taking The Child From The Cradle, The Mother From Her Babe, And The Father From The Family.

Too Many Men Slip Early Out Of The Habit Of Studious Reading, And Yet That Is Essential.