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suming the honours of Doctor Medicince. These ad- 

 dresses were carefully written out, as he held it right 

 to be methodical and accurate, and that parting words 

 of advice should be appropriately tendered to those 

 who, as alumni, had been under the sheltering wing of 

 their alma mater for years, and who, as graduates, 

 might be expected, as they should be encouraged, to 

 uphold the dignity and interest of their profession. 



After the first year of his professorship, he moved 

 from Lothian Street to a large house in George 

 Square, which he fitted up in good style ; there he 

 received many of his old friends and numerous visitors 

 from the Continent ; and there no doubt he hoped to 

 find in surgical and consultation practice a new field 

 for the display of his abilities. Disappointed in his 

 hospital aims, and otherwise harassed, he took up his 

 residence in Charlotte Street in the New Town. Here 

 his habits underwent a great change. To avoid visitors 

 he went to bed at 8.30 p.m., and rose before 5 a.m. ; in 

 this way he got five hours work done before Edinburgh 

 had breakfasted. He lived in rigid simplicity and did 

 nearly everything for himself; the sofa of the day 

 became his bed of the night, so that he slept amidst 

 his papers and special preparations, and could dress or 

 turn to work at any time without the fear of intruding 

 domestics. For some years he sought the country by 

 tip' shores of the Firth of Forth, and lived at the 

 Trinity Baths, throe miles from the Tniversity. Ee 

 moved from the baths to Edinburgh again Cor eighteen 

 months, and then finally settled at South Cottage, 



