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'Eliot, that Warren is an artful man, and will get to windward 

 of us all. He has made a proposition to the club, that, as there 

 are nearly a dozen pupils in town, there should be an incipient 

 medical school instituted for their benefit; . . . He has . . . pro- 



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Figure 15. John Warren (1753-1815) as he appeared in June, 1783. From 



Warren, £.: The Life of John Collins Warren, M.D. Volume I. Boston, 



Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 



posed some suitable person on anatomy and surgery. He was 

 immediately put up . . .; and, after a little maiden coyness, agreed 

 to commence a course, as he has many operations and surgical 



