In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. - William Osler

Faith is indeed one of the miracles of human nature which science is as ready to accept as it is to study its marvellous effects. When we realise what a vast asset it has been in history, the part which it has played in the healing art seems insignificant, and yet there is no department of knowledge more favourable to an impartial study of its effects, and this brings me to my subject — the faith that heals.

In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.