Advice Is Sought To Confirm A Position

The Value Of Experience Is Not In Seeing Much, But In Seeing Wisely.

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.

Breathes There A Man With Soul So Dead That It Does Not Glow At The Thought Of What The Men Of His Blood Have Done And Suffered To Make His Country What It Is? There Is Room, Plenty Of Room, For Proper Pride Of Land And Birth. What I Inveigh Against Is A Cursed Spirit Of Intolerance, Conceived In Distrust And Bred In Ignorance, That Makes The Mental Attitude Perennially Antagonistic, Even Bitterly Antagonistic, To Everything Foreign, That Subordinates Everywhere The Race To The Nation, Forgetting The Higher Claims Of Human Brotherhood.

But Whatever You Do, Take Neither Yourselves Nor Your Fellow-creatures Too Seriously. There Is Tragedy Enough In Our Daily Routine, But There Is Room Too For A Keen Sense Of The Absurdities And Incongruities Of Life, And In The Shifting Panorama No One Sees Better Than The Doctor The Perennial Sameness Of Men’s Ways.

Soap And Water And Common Sense Are The Best Disinfectants.