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a tobacconist's shop at the corner of Wilton Street 

 and Oxford Road. 



An old medical friend gave me some excellent 

 practical advice. He said : " You will have for some 

 " time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. 

 " Never mind ! win the good opinions of washerwomen 

 " and such like, and in time you will hear of their 

 41 recommendations of you to the wealthier families by 

 " whom they are employed." I did so, and found it 

 succeed as predicted. 



The ordinary experiences of the life of most young 

 medical practitioners need not be recorded, but some 

 special ones had value in my case. One of the 

 newest operations in surgery that had attracted 

 my attention just before I left London, was that 

 which proved to be a cure for strabismus or squint- 

 ing. As a practical remedy, the knowledge of this 

 operation had not reached the provinces. The report 

 of two or three successful attempts of this kind 

 performed in Manchester spread abroad, and besides 

 bringing me a number of patients who were simi- 

 larly affected, brought to me also a youth (with a fair 

 fee) whose friends wished me to receive him into my 

 house as medical pupil. This led a short time after- 

 wards to my obtaining a second resident pupil. I 

 was, early in my career, appointed medical super- 

 intendent to a large club of Oddfellows, and thus, in 

 various ways, I passed through the first two years 

 without having to borrow very much from my kind 

 friends. 



