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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.

We Doctors Have Always Been A Simple Trusting Folk. Did We Not Believe Galen Implicitly For 1500 Years And Hippocrates For More Than 2000?

The Very First Step Toward Success In Any Occupation Is To Become Interested In It. Locke Put This In A Very Happy Way When He Said, Give A Pupil "a Relish Of Knowledge" And You Put Life Into His Work.

A Library Represents The Mind Of Its Collector, His Fancies And Foibles, His Strength And Weakness, His Prejudices And Preferences. Particularly Is This The Case If, To The Character Of A Collector, He Adds - Or Tries To Add - The Qualities Of A Student Who Wishes To Know The Books And The Lives Of The Men Who Wrote Them. The Friendships Of His Life, The Phases Of His Growth, The Vagaries Of His Mind, All Are Represented.

At The Outset Do Not Be Worried About This Big Question-truth. It Is A Very Simple Matter If Each One Of You Starts With The Desire To Get As Much As Possible. No Human Being Is Constituted To Know The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth; And Even The Best Of Men Must Be Content With Fragments, With Partial Glimpses, Never The Full Fruition. In This Unsatisfied Quest The Attitude Of Mind, The Desire, The Thirst-a Thirst That From The Soul Must Arise!-the Fervent Longing, Are The Be-all And The End-all.