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power of the successt'ul explorer is most stimulating, it eneourages 

 the pupil to attaek open problems, and, if he can, he formulates ques- 

 tions and takes his position towards them. Thus j\Iiiller's presence 

 worked upon His and unconsciously the latter soon found himself in the 

 library studying ]\Iiiller's monographs. 



His also pursued a course in embryology M'ith Remak in Berlin. The 

 subject was then a new one, but it made a profound and lasting impres- 

 sion upon the young student for it showed the relation between histology, 

 embryology and comparative anatomy. To Eemak, His owed more 

 than to Miiller, for Eemak's teaching helped him to formulate problems 

 which occupied him during the following half century; his efforts to 

 solve them, have, in many respects, changed the aspects of anatomy. 



How different is the study of medicine in Europe from that in Amer- 

 ica! There freedom reigns and students wander from place to place 

 being controlled only by a fairly rational system of examinations in case 

 they wish to graduate. Weak students fall out, for there is no cram 

 system to drive them onward ; able students select great men as teachers 

 and thereby develop themselves and become stronger. So His, soon tiring 

 of the sterile lectures in practical medicine, turned his eye towards a 

 new star which w^as beginning to illuminate the medical w'orld and 

 wended his way to Wiirzburg to study wath Virchow. During one of 

 Reinhardt's lectures. His had happened to see Virchow's great paper 

 upon connective tissue which had just appeared and it made so great 

 an impression upon him, that he at once decided to go to Virchow\ He 

 was then far from prescient of the fact that in a few years he was to 

 take an important part in the great discussion which Virchow had 

 opened." 



In the early fifties, the University of Wiirzburg was at the beginning of 

 that rapid rise coincident with the appearance there of a brilliant band 

 of young professors. The change was brought about largely by a re- 

 former. Professor Reinecker, through whose personal efforts Virchow and 

 Kolliker w^ere secured. It was the good fortune of His to enter this 

 atmosphere; a select faculty was chosen by a talented student. He en- 

 tered Wiirzburg at the beginning of his fourth year of medical study 

 and began to work in the clinics. He soon found that the laboratories 

 attracted him more than the clinics and during three semesters much 

 time was devoted to practical chemistry; the weekly meetings of the 

 Scientific Society always found him present to hear of the new medicine 

 from Virchow and Kolliker. 



For a time he attended regularly a kind of journal-meeting at Kol- 

 liker's house wdiere a variety of scientific subjects were discussed. There 



