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colour ? Yet this desire exists with persons of the 

 first talents, fortune, and rank in this country : 



te Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, 

 <f These little things are great to little man." 



Though it be unnecessary, therefore, to pro- 

 ceed further in proving the value of a fellow- 

 ship of the college, I shall, notwithstanding, 

 briefly mention some of the advantages, which 

 accrue to physicians from possessing it. 



There are various offices, lectureships, and 

 appointments in the college, which are attended 

 with profit, and are filled by fellows alone. The 

 emoluments of these, though not considerable, 

 are still of sufficient magnitude to render them 

 objects of desire to physicians in the first years 

 of their residence in London ; and hence, as I 

 have been informed, they are frequently given 

 to the younger fellows, with the view of assist- 

 ing them during that difficult period. 



The chief advantages, however, which a phy- 

 sician enjoys from a fellowship of the college, 

 are in consequence of his being often placed by 

 it, in very conspicuous and honourable situa- 

 tions. Soon after receiving it, he becomes an 

 examiner of the fitness of other physicians to be 

 fellows or licentiates ; a visitor of the shops of 

 apothecaries, for the purpose of inspecting the 



