In A Sick-room Or A Bed-room There

The Account He Gives Of Nurses Beats Everything That Even I Know Of. This Young Prophet Says That They Are All Drunkards, Without Exception, Sisters And All, And That There Are But Two Whom The Surgeon Can Trust To Give The Patients Their Medicines.

I Stand At The Altar Of Murdered Men, And, While I Live, I Fight Their Cause.

The Night Is Given To Us To Take Breath, To Pray, To Drink Deep At The Fountain Of Power.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

A Want Of The Habit Of Observing And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.