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eyes quite up in its progress down to his neck, whence 

 it had started and where it stopped. There was as 

 little hope of his getting through with the erysipelas 

 as there had been at one time with the fever. The 

 doctor said that, if his constitution had not been 

 unusually good, he could not have survived the last 

 attack. He was again very much reduced, and this 

 time it was long before he had any desire for food ; 

 and between the two, fever and erysipelas, it was 

 fully a year before he could return to his college 

 work. 



Many of his certificates of attendance at lectures are 

 still in existence. It is largely due to wifely care that 

 these cards have survived the changes and chances 

 of between fifty and sixty years. Apart from any 

 biographical interest, they have a value as showing that 

 the training of a medical student in those days was no 

 perfunctory affair, opening the door of the profession 

 to any chance comer. 



The certificates vouch that David Robertson 

 attended courses at the Andersonian University, in 

 Anatomy, theoretical and practical, under Dr. Robert 

 Hunter, from May 4 to October 26, 1831, from 

 November 8, 1831, to April 25, 1832, and from May 8 

 to October 25, 1832 ; lectures on Surgery, under Dr. 

 James Adair Lawrie, from May 8 to October 30, 

 1832 ; on practical Chemistry, under Thomas Graham, 

 F.R.S.E., from May 8 to August I, 1832, and from 

 November 5, 1833, to April 25, 1834; on Materia 

 Medica, at the Glasgow College, under Dr. Richard 

 Miller, from November, 1832, to April, 1833; anc * 

 that he attended Dr. Lawrie on his daily visits to 



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