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and so the most perfect order prevails. Everybody knows 

 what are Professor S.'s hours, and everybody observes them. 

 He has an assistant who writes prescriptions to his dictation, 

 directions, letters, &c., and also attends to cases. He examines 

 cases daily when there is occasion to do so. From long experi- 

 ence and constant observation, the habit of recording cases, 

 and of distinguishing them with all the accuracy in his power, 

 he is able to arrive at conclusions in the cases before him in a 

 very short time, or to make his diagnosis. I see most, or many 

 of his cases, examine them after him, and I have again and 

 again been struck, in new ones, how true is his diagnosis. He 

 proceeds at once to the treatment. If an operation is to be, 

 he does it at once. Applications of remedies are made and 

 prescriptions given, with directions, and the patient is desired 

 to call in a week, fortnight, in two days, &c., as circumstances 

 may indicate. At times the case is written down from the 

 answers of patients to questions. This is always the case if it 

 be a new case, or it is probable that changes may be required 

 in treatment, or the effects of treatment noted. Some notion 

 may be got of this portion of Professor S.'s indoor or home 

 professional Hfe. He goes through this great labour quietly 

 and methodi'cally, and with as gentle, kind, cheerful spirit as 

 man ever manifested. The moral character of the daily service 

 in disease is quite as striking as the professional. The moral 

 presides over the whole, and renders it one of the most interesting 

 matters for observation that can occur. I have been utterly 

 surprised at its executive patience, its efficient activity. Here are 

 the poor and the rich together, with no other distinctions than such 

 as will best accommodate both. And I can say, from a long and 

 wide observation, that there is no difference in their treatment. 

 The great fact of each in Professor S.'s regard is the fact that 



