For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

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.

One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine