He Who Knows Syphilis Knows Medicine

In The Mortality Bills, Pneumonia Is An Easy Second, To Tuberculosis; Indeed In Many Cities The Death-rate Is Now Higher And It Has Become, To Use The Phrase Of Bunyan 'the Captain Of The Men Of Death.'

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

He Who Studies Medicine Without Books Sails An Uncharted Sea, But He Who Studies Medicine Without Patients Does Not Go To Sea At All.

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.

Look Wise, Say Nothing, And Grunt. Speech Was Given To Conceal Thought.