Originally published: London, 1904 "Third impression." 2nd ed. published 1906 Printed by Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London Bookplate of Emmet F. Pearson, M.D. Signature of R.S. Welch, May, 1915 Aequanimitas -- Doctor and nurse -- Teacher and student -- Physic and physicians as depicted in Plato -- The leaven of science -- The army surgeon -- Teaching and thinking -- Internal medicine as a vocation -- Nurse and patient -- British medicine in Greater Britain -- After twenty-five years -- Books and men -- Medicine in the Nineteenth Century -- Chauvinism in medicine -- Some aspects of American medical bibliography -- The hospital as a college -- On the educational value of the medical society -- The master-word of medicine -- The fixed period -- The student life -- Unity, peace and concord -- L'Envoi