The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pur….

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery..

In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical th….

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, i….

Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correc….

In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed und….

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure..

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than in….

Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enl….