Patients Rarely Die Of The Disease From

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.

No Dreams, No Visions, No Delicious Fantasies, No Castles In The Air, With Which, As The Old Song So Truly Says, Hearts Are Broken, Heads Are Turned.

It Is Much Simpler To Buy Books Than To Read Them And Easier To Read Them Than To Absorb Their Contents.

To Have A Group Of Cloistered Clinicians Away Completely From The Broad Current Of Professional Life Would Be Bad For Teacher And Worse For Student. The Primary Work Of A Professor Of Medicine In A Medical School Is In The Wards, Teaching His Pupils How To Deal With Patients And Their Diseases.

The Scots Are The Backbone Of Canada. They Are All Right In Their Three Vital Parts - Head, Heart And Haggis.