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CQurfe. Before they could have an opportunity of ap- 

 plying for a ticket, he would fometimes lead the con- 

 verfation to fome objedt that occurred in the courfe of 

 his ledlures ; and as his lectures were never put in writ- 

 ing by himfelf, he would fometimes beg the favour to 

 fee their notes, if he knew they had been taken with at- 

 tention, under a pretext of aihlling his memory: Some- 

 times he would exprefs a wilh to have their opinion 

 of a particular part of his courfe, and prefented them 

 \vith a ticket for that purpofe : and fometimes he refuf- 

 cd to take payment, under the pretext that they had not 

 received hxsfull courfe the preceding year, fome part 

 of it having been necefl'arily omitted for want of time, 

 •which he meant to include in this courfe *. By fuch 

 delicate addrefs, in which he greatly excelled, he took 

 care to forerun their wants. Thus, he not only gave 

 them the benefit of his own Ie£l:ures, but, by refufing 

 to take their money, he alfo enabled them to attend 

 thofe of others that were neceflary to complete their 

 eourfe of iUidies. Thefe were particular devices he 

 adopted to individuals to whom ceconomy was neceflary ; 

 but it was a general rule with him, never to take money 

 from any ftudent for more than two courfesof the fame 

 fet of leclures, permitting him to attend thefe le£l:ures 

 as many years longer as he pleafed, gratis. 



He introduced another general rule into the Univer- 

 £ty, that was dictated by the fame principle of difinter- 

 efted beneficence, that ought not to be here pafled over 

 in filence. Before he came to Edinburgh, it was the 

 cufloni for medical profeflbrs to accept of fees for their 

 medical affiftance when wanted, even from medical ftu- 

 dents themfelves, who were perhaps attending the pro- 



* Doftor Cullcn was fo full in his courfe of leAures, that he never 

 hadtimi to overtake the whole in one feffion, even although he ufually 

 gave double Ictftures for a month or fix weeks before the end of the 

 feffion. His praAice was to omit one branch of his fubjed one fea- 

 fon, and taking in that next fcafon, omit another part that had been 

 given the former year ; fo tliat thefe who attended two feafons might 

 be fure of the whole. 



