DR. JOHN D . GOD MAN. 11 



where he would have the opportunity of studying 

 medicine. This offer was accepted with joy; and he 

 resolved, by the most indefatigable study and dili- 

 gence, to deserve the kindness of his friend. "In 

 six weeks/' says the doctor, "he had acquired more 

 knowledge in the different departments of medical 

 science, than most students do in a year. During 

 this short period he not only read Chaptal, Fourcroy, 

 Chesselden, Murray, Brown, Cullen, Rush, Sydenham, 

 Sharp, and Cooper, but wrote annotations on each, 

 including critical remarks on the incongruities in 

 their reasonings. He remained with me five months, 

 and at the end of that time you would have imagined 

 from his conversation that he was an Edinburgh 

 graduate." When he sat down to study, he was so 

 completely absorbed by his subject, that scarcely 

 any event would withdraw his attention. 



Returning to Baltimore, he commenced the at- 

 tendance of the medical lectures in that city, and 

 pursued his studies under the direction of an emi- 

 nent medical preceptor. In this situation he, through 

 many affecting difficulties, finished his education as a 

 physician. At one time his feelings are thus de- 

 scribed in a letter : " I have been cast among 

 strangers. I have been deprived of property by 

 fraud that was mine by right. I have eaten the 

 bread of misery. I have drunk of the cup of sor- 

 row. I have passed the flower of my days in a state 

 little better than slavery, and have arrived at what ? 

 Manhood, poverty, and desolation. Heavenly Parent, 

 teach me patience and resignation to Thy will V 



