Without Faith A Man Can Do Nothing;

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.

The Hardest Conviction To Get Into The Mind Of A Beginner Is That The Education Upon Which He Is Engaged Is Not A College Course, Not A Medical Course, But A Life Course, For Which The Work Of A Few Years Under Teachers Is But A Preparation.

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 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. Often The Best Part Of Your Work Will Have Nothing To Do With Potions And Powders, But With The Exercise Of An Influence Of The Strong Upon The Weak, Of The Righteous Upon The Wicked, Of The Wise Upon The Foolish.

The Teacher's Life Should Have Three Periods, Study Until Twenty-five, Investigation Until Forty, Profession Until Sixty, At Which Age I Would Have Him Retired On A Double Allowance.