CHAPTER V 



Commencement of medical studentship in London Univer- 

 sity College Teaching staff Fellow students Search 

 for Fritillaria meleagris Geological Society Syrian 

 fossils Attic lodgings and life Niger expedition 

 College caps and gowns Final examinations Return 

 to Manchester Commencement of practice Operation 

 for strabismus Mantell's " Medals of Creation " My 

 father's "Culpepper" Mr. Joseph Sidebotham 

 Microscopic observation Elected member of Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society Lyon 

 Playfair and Dr. Joule Sturgeon Potato disease 

 Clairvoyance Braid and hypnotism False hypnotism. 



AFTER leaving Manchester I spent three summer 

 months with my parents, and worked up my Latin 

 in preparation for passing the examination in that 

 language at the Apothecaries' Hall, in the beginning 

 of October ; which I succeeded in doing. I was 

 thus enabled to devote myself henceforth to purely 

 medical studies; but financial difficulties still 

 weighed upon my mind. The heavy expenses of 

 college and hospital life, along with those fees which 

 had to be paid at the end of my studentship for 

 admission to the Apothecaries' Hall and the College of 



