"The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy, and un…"

"Look out for all the little incidental things that you can do for his comfort. These, too, are part of the care of th…"

"...it is much easier to make a wrong diagnosis than it is to unmake it."

"My own professional and personal experience has shown me that morphine is the gift of God, but depending upon how it …"

"Dr. Francis W. Peabody was still a young man when he wrote one of the great classics of American medicine, The Care o…"

"Peabody’s wife remembered him saying, “I am absolutely sure that this little lecture will be remembered long after an…"

"He liked people. He had delightful social qualities, and concealed a seriousness of mind and a great earnestness of p…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"