Humanity Has But Three Great

Even In Populous Districts, The Practice Of Medicine Is A Lonely Road Which Winds Up-hill All The Way And A Man May Easily Go Astray And Never Reach The Delectable Mountains Unless He Early Finds Those Shepherd Guides Of Whom Bunyan Tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, And Sincere.

To Have A Group Of Cloistered Clinicians Away Completely From The Broad Current Of Professional Life Would Be Bad For Teacher And Worse For Student. The Primary Work Of A Professor Of Medicine In A Medical School Is In The Wards, Teaching His Pupils How To Deal With Patients And Their Diseases.

It Is Not As If Our Homeopathic Brothers Are Asleep: Far From It, They Are Awake - Many Of Them At Any Rate - To The Importance Of The Scientific Study Of Disease.

To It, More Than To Anything Else, I Owe Whatever Success I Have Had - To This Power Of Settling Down To The Day's Work And Trying To Do It To The Best Of One's Ability, And Letting The Future Take Care Of Itself.

Nothing Will Sustain You More Potently Than The Power To Recognize In Your Humdrum Routine, As Perhaps It May Be Thought, The True Poetry Of Life.