The Next Christ Will Perhaps

Go Into A Room Where The Shutters Are Always Shut (in A Sick-room Or A Bed-room There Should Never Be Shutters Shut), And Though The Room Be Uninhabited-though The Air Has Never Been Polluted By The Breathing Of Human Beings, You Will Observe A Close, Musty Smell Of Corrupt Air-of Air Unpurified By The Effect Of The Sun's Rays.

Moral Activity? There Is Scarcely Such A Thing Possible! Everything Is Sketchy. The World Does Nothing But Sketch.

Never To Allow A Patient To Be Waked, Intentionally Or Accidentally, Is A Sine Qua Non Of All Good Nursing.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

Volumes Are Now Written And Spoken Upon The Effect Of The Mind Upon The Body. Much Of It Is True. But I Wish A Little More Was Thought Of The Effect Of The Body On The Mind.