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about five years. Then, at the age of twenty-five, I 

 could begin to write." The parents had intended 



FIG. 208. Louis Agassis. 



Louis for a commercial life, but the boy's hopes and 

 ambitions led in other directions, and medicine was 

 substituted. After two years at the College of Lau- 

 sanne, he went to the Medical School at Zurich, and 

 in 1826, at the age of nineteen, to the University of 

 Heidelberg in Germany. 



3. The four years of university life in Germany were University 

 divided between Heidelberg and Munich. The new Germany 

 university at Munich had opened under brilliant 



