His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.