22 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



regretting than myself the discredit brought upon 

 the pursuit by the proceedings of various itinerant 

 lecturers, etc. Both my name and person are 

 unknown to the Rev. C. H. T. — but, although I 

 have not asked his permission, I feel confident 

 that I might refer to Dr. Elliotson, to whom I am 

 already under obligations for life itself. 



" My object in answering your advertisement is 

 not pecuniary, for my present pursuits supply me 

 with more than sufficient for my wants, but I 

 desire to be instrumental in the advancement of 

 a science that I conceive to be of immense 

 importance to suffering humanity." 



The letter, which is signed " W. B. Tegetmeier ' 

 — for the first time so far as I can trace — gives us 

 a veritable living picture of the man at this stage 

 of his career, and it concludes appropriately 

 enough, this — the medical — period of his life. 



