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feflbr's own leftures at the time. But Cullen never 

 would take fees as a phyfician, from znyjludent at the 

 Univerfity, though he attended them when called in as 

 a phvfician, with the fame afliduity and care as if they 

 had been perfons of the firft rank, who paid him moft 

 liberally. This gradually induced others to adopt a 

 fimilar pra£lice; fo that it is now become a general rule 

 at this Univerfuy, for medical profefTors to decline tak- 

 ing any fees when their affiftance is neceflary to a 

 ftudent. For this ufeful reform, with many others, the 

 ftudents of the Univerfity of Edinburgh are folely in- 

 debted to the liberality of Doftor Cullen. 



The following little anecdote relative to this fubj£l:, 

 fell under the obfervation of the writer of this article, 

 and may be depended on. The gentleman to whom 

 it relates i« ftill alive, as is believed, and in good prac- 

 tice as a phyfician in England, and will no doubt rea- 

 dily recolleA it, if ever thefe Iheets fhould fall in his 

 way. 



A medical ftudent who lodged in the fame houfe 

 with the writer, iu the year 1760, and who attended 

 at that tinie a courfe of ledtures given by one of the 

 medical profeflbrs, but v/ho never had attended CuUen's 

 clafs f , happened to take the fmall-pox, which necef- 

 farily detained him from the clafs, and prevented him 

 for the time from receiving any benefit from thefe lec- 

 tures. At the beginning of the diforder, the young; 

 man, who was bulky, and in full habit of body, wa^ 

 fick, and very uneafy. He naturally called in his own 

 profeflbr as a phyfician ; but in a lliort time the fick- 

 nefs abated, and the fmall-pox, of the moft favourable 

 kind, made their appearance, after which no idea of 

 danger could be apprehended. In this ftate of things, 

 the whole family were very much furprifed to fin*! 



f For the information of ftrangers, it may be ncccfTary here toob- 

 fcrvc, that at the Univerfity of Edinburgh, no courfe of ftudy is prc- 

 fcribed, but every itudent ii ut liberty to Jttcijii the kAurts of fucli 

 jfrofeflbrs as he iadine;. 



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