If It Were Not For The Great

The True Poetry Of Life: The Poetry Of The Commonplace, Of The Ordinary Man, Of The Plain, Toil-worn Woman, With Their Loves And Their Joys, Their Sorrows And Their Griefs.

Few Diseases Present Greater Difficulties In The Way Of Diagnosis Than Malignant Endocarditis, Difficulties Which In Many Cases Are Practi- Cally Insurmountable. It Is No Disparagement To The Many Skilled Physicians Who Have Put Their Cases Upon Record To Say That, In Fully One-half The Diagnosis Was Made Post Mortem.

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.

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

The Desire To Take Medicine Is Perhaps The Greatest Feature Which Distinguishes Man From Animals.