Let Each Hour Of The Day Have

Work Is The Open Sesame Of Every Portal, The Great Equalizer In The World, The True Philosopher's Stone Which Transmutes All The Base Metal Of Humanity Into Gold.

The Practice Of Medicine Is An Art, Not A Trade; A Calling, Not A Business; A Calling In Which Your Heart Will Be Exercised Equally With Your Head.

Now Of The Difficulties Bound Up With The Public In Which We Doctors Work, I Hesitate To Speak In A Mixed Audience. Common Sense In Matters Medical Is Rare, And Is Usually In Inverse Ratio To The Degree Of Education.

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.

By Far The Most Dangerous Foe We Have To Fight Is Apathy-indifference From Whatever Cause, Not From A Lack Of Knowledge, But From Carelessness, From Absorption In Other Pursuits, From A Contempt Bred Of Self Satisfaction.