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sicians and surgeons, who gave high promise of 

 future eminence. The resident house physician was 

 Dr. John Taylor, the first man who received Doctor's 

 Degree from the newly founded University of 

 London. As a painstaking student and teacher, he 

 was, in my experience, unrivalled, and had he lived, 

 nothing could have prevented him from taking the 

 highest rank amongst Metropolitan physicians. But 

 unfortunately, the severity with which he pursued 

 his studies brought on disease of the heart, which 

 soon drove him into the country. He retreated to 

 Huddersfield, his native town, where he at once 

 took the foremost medical position. 



Among my fellow-students in the college were 

 several hard-working men who subsequently attained 

 high professional rank. Sir William Jenner was 

 just closing his student's career as I entered upon 

 mine. Professor Erichsen and Sir Alfred Garrod 

 rose steadily into the distinguished positions which 

 they eventually occupied, and which Edmund Parkes 

 would have attained to, had not an early death 

 arrested his promising career. My student friend, 

 Dr. Charles Hare, is my friend still, and to his 

 kindly care during a nasty illness a year ago I 

 probably owe my life, now at the age of seventy- 

 seven. 



I availed myself to the uttermost of the brilliant 

 advantages which such a school afforded me. I was 

 only once absent from my place in the lecture-room 

 and hospital, and that was when a brother botanist, 



