There is something very dry in family history, because no one cares for other people's relations. - Thomas Gordon Hake

It may be boasted that free-trade in physic came before free-trade in corn, and from that time medical science began to flourish in this country.

Nothing that has been and has died out, will be revived. The skeleton, an osseous Apollo, will remain, and that is all.

Dr. Thomas Young, the illustrious inventor of the Undulatory Theory of Light, was then a physician at St. George's. I used to go round the wards with him. He was thought to be very undecided in his opinions of a case; the fact is, medicine is so uncertain a science, it was not good enough for such an intellect as his to work on.