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physician are frequently to oppose sudden at- 

 tacks of disease, which do not permit his think- 

 ing long, how this can best be done. For these 

 reasons, it seldom happens, that physicians 

 either merit much praise from their first efforts 

 Jto cure diseases, or quickly acquire a considera- 

 ble increase of practice from any single display 

 of great talents. They must consequently be 

 strongly disposed to adopt other means to raise 

 themselves to notice. 



The present possession of practice being a 

 considerable recommendation of physicians to 

 further employment, every young physician 

 finds an advantage in having it thought, that 

 his business is greater than it actually is ; and 

 should he endeavour to impress the public with 

 such an opinion, the privacy with which the 

 medical profession is for the most part exer- 

 cised, prevents any flagrant discovery, that it is 

 not well founded. Many of them are therefore 

 induced, notwithstanding the smallness of their 

 incomes, to imitate the exterior expence of their 

 seniors, hoping that the world will hence believe, 

 that they enjoy a corresponding degree of em- 

 ployment. The business of a. barrister being, 

 on the contrary, chiefly conducted in open 

 courts, any attempt to make it appear greater, 

 than it is in reality, would soon expose him 

 to ridicule and disgrace* He lives, therefore., 



