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amusement which have repaid my time and money. It 

 might, perhaps, be more useful to me to take some instruc- 

 tion how to sit in a doctor's chariot ; but it is impossible to 

 possess any qualification which one may not want, and capa- 

 bilities are but light burdens. We have another fashion- 

 able exercise, which I think adequately corresponds to the 

 athletic schools of the ancients vaulting on a wooden horse 

 in various positions and I am much more known among the 

 students for excelling in this than for writing Greek, of 

 which they have little knowledge and not much more 

 respect. 



After being nine months at Grottingen he returned 

 by Brunswick, Grotha, Weimar, Jena, Dresden, and 

 Berlin to England in February 1797. At Brunswick 

 he had a favourable opportunity of exhibiting his per- 

 sonal agility at a court masquerade, where he made 

 his appearance with great success in the character of 

 Harlequin. 



From Berlin he wrote, December 12, to his uncle : 

 ' You say my Thesis (for his medical degree, on the 

 conservative forces of the human body) is caviare to the 

 general ; but do not you think people have a greater 

 respect for anything out of the common way? It 

 seems a fatality that almost everything I do, or produce, 

 should be termed stiff ; in this case it may arise from 

 my having been obliged to treat the subject in a short 

 compass.' 



Finding, when he came back from Grermany, that 

 the College of Physicians of London required two years' 

 continuous attendance at one university for a licence 

 to practise, and shut out from the Fellowship all who 

 were not graduates at Cambridge or Oxford, he went 



