Medicine Is A Science Of

Save The Fleeting Minute; Learn Gracefully To Dodge The Bore.

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.

It Is Much More Important To Know What Sort Of A Patient Has A Disease Than What Sort Of A Disease A Patient Has.

The Young Doctor Should Look About Early For An Avocation, A Pastime, That Will Take Him Away From Patients, Pills, And Potions.

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.