Our preceptor further contrived by various 

 means to excite a degree of enthusiasm 

 in the minds of his pupils. He displayed 

 to us the beau ideal of the medical 

 character : I cannot readily tell you how 

 splendid and brilliant he made it appear; 

 and then, he cautioned us never to tarnish 

 its lustre by any disingenuous conduct, 

 by any thing that wore even the semblance 

 of dishonour. He caused tfre sentiment 

 of the philanthropic Chremes, in the 

 Heautontimorumenos of Terence, to be 

 inscribed on the walls of the hospital-sur- 

 gery, that students should have constantly 

 before them an admonition to humanity, 

 drawn from a reflection on their own 

 wants : Homo sum ; humani nihil a me 

 alienum puto. 



I could with pleasure enlarge on 

 this theme, but I check myself, be- 

 cause I am aware that what I am 



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