Medical Aphorisms.

A correspondent signing himself "Artz" sends to the Canda Lancet the following professional aphorisms of Amedee Latour:

1. Life is short, patients fastidious, and the brethren deceptive.

2. Practice is a field of which tact is the manure.

3. Patients are comparable to flannel - neither can be quitted without danger.

4. The physician who absents himself runs the same risk as the lover who leaves his mistress; he is pretty sure to find himself supplanted.

5. Would you rid yourself of a tiresome patient, present your bill.

6. The patient who pays his attendant is but exacting; he who does not is a despot.

7. The physician who depends upon the gratitude of his patient for his fee is like the traveler who waited upon the bank of a river until it would finish flowing that he might cross to the other side.

8. Modesty, simplicity, truthfulness! - cleansing virtues, everywhere but at the bedside; there simplicity is construed as hesitation; modesty as want of confidence, truth as impoliteness.

9. Remeber always to appear to do something - above all when you are doing nothing. - Northwestern Lancet.

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