I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture, is one of the most striking as well as melancholy facts in surgical practice.

If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.