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pleasure one feels in such a sudden change from a 

 remote situation, where no one is able to understand or 

 sympathize with you in your pursuits, to a place which 

 contains within itself all the talent and science in 

 Europe, and where every one is eager to acquire and 

 communicate knowledge;" and in reference to his 

 paper — "that his facts were new to science, and that 

 he had completely set at rest the great questions in 

 this department of anatomy, so far as human structure 

 was concerned." Thus he was satisfied with his first 

 public effort, and encouraged to extend his labours. 

 It was a great step for a village doctor to make, so 

 that Dr. George Johnston, the naturalist, might well 

 sympathize with any and every effort of a provincial 

 practitioner to help on science, and to rescue men like 

 himself and Goodsir from the sort of superciliousness 

 with which metropolitans were apt to regard them. 

 Scotland has produced other examples as marked as 

 Goodsir and Johnston of country doctors extending the 

 boundary of both literature and science; and Dr. 

 Francis Adams of Banchory, the Oriental scholar and 

 translator of Paidus JEgineta, and Dr. Moir (Delta) of 

 Musselburgh, may be cited as instances. 



