The Medical World, Volume 28

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Roy Jackson., 1910
 

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Page 329 - 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 11 - 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 may; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
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Page 236 - It is not what we earn, but what we save, that makes us rich. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that makes us strong.
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Page 273 - Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.
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