us to spend our nights in study, and 

 our days in the disgusting and health- 

 destroying avocations of the dissecting 

 room ; or in that careful and distressing 

 observation of human diseases and infir- 

 mities, which alone can enable us to un- 

 derstand, alleviate, or remove them: for 

 upon no other terms can we be con- 

 sidered as real students of our profession. 

 We have need of some powerful induce- 

 ment, exclusively of the expectation of 

 fame or emolument : for unfortunately a 

 man may attain a considerable share of 

 public reputation and practice without 

 , undertaking the labours I have men- 

 tioned, without being a real student of 

 his profession. 1 place before you the 

 most animating incentive I know of to 

 labour truly to acquire professional know- 

 ledge. You will by such conduct possess 

 yourselves of the enviable power of being 

 extensively useful to your fellow-crea- 



