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practise as a doctor from the moment he was emancipated 

 from his official obligations. But he always kept up his con- 

 nexion with medical science, and frequently asserted later on 

 that to a certain extent he felt more at home in it than in 

 any other department, while he looked back to his education 

 at the Military College with affection, and owed to it, as 

 Ludwig justly remarks, 'the care he invariably bestowed 

 upon his personal appearance, and the general decorum of 

 his attitude/ 



