The Medical World, Volume 30

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Roy Jackson., 1912

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Page 75 - They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away ! Weep not for golden ages on the wane! Each night I burn the records of the day — At sunrise every soul is born again!
Page 377 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 1 - The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 42 - A Pocket Medical Dictionary, giving the pronunciation and definition of the principal words used in medicine and the collateral sciences...
Page 261 - Nervous and Mental Diseases. By ARCHIBALD CHURCH, MD, Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases...
Page 270 - ... should die to-night And you should come to my cold corpse and say, Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay — If I should die to-night, And you should come in deepest grief and woe — And say : " Here's that ten dollars that I owe," I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?
Page 401 - But the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men. Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
Page 44 - No indictment is insufficient, nor can the trial, judgment, or other proceedings thereon be affected, by reason of a defect or imperfection in matter of form, which does not tend to the prejudice of the substantial rights of the defendant, upon the merits.
Page 363 - Kelly and Cullen's Myomata of the Uterus Myomata of the Uterus. By HOWARD A. KELLY, MD, Professor of Gynecologic Surgery at Johns Hopkins University; and THOMAS S. CULLEN, MB( Associate in Gynecology at Johns Hopkins University. Large octavo of about 700 pages, with 388 original illustrations, by August Horn and Hermann Becker. Cloth, $7.50 net ; Half Morocco, $9.00 net.
Page 75 - Wail not for precious chances passed away, Weep not for golden ages on the wane; Each night I burn the records of the day, At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb: My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come. Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep, I lend my arm to all who say, "I can.

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