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first attracted me to it, and has kept me faithful to it for a good many 

 years, though it offers few prospects either of scientific honours or 

 material recompense. I have been speaking only of that knowledge 

 of the topography of the body which is needful for the practitioner, 

 and I have been urging that, as he cannot learn all, the student should 

 be encouraged to master that which will be most useful to him. 

 Above all, that he should learn it in the first instance really and truly 

 from Nature, and should have his knowledge of the things themselves 

 tested, rather than of their names or his capacity for describing them 

 in a scholarly manner. 



