THE BIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE. 101 



casual relation between his early training and his 

 subsequent career ; so, too, in the case of Joseph 

 Wallace. What training could be better for a micro- 

 scopist than to have his eye trained to distinguish 

 form, and his mind trained to remember ? 



The writer can testify, from some little experience 

 of his own, that the forms presented under the 

 microscope are exceedingly bewildering to the un- 

 trained eye. What special training have most of our 

 biologists ever received ? None whatever, except in 

 the very course of their work, like the training a 

 young clergyman generally receives in preaching, when 

 he has to practise upon the patience of his congrega- 

 tion, so the patients in our hospitals and a miserable 

 multitude of dogs, cats, guinea-pigs and rabbits, fowls 

 and pigeons, have to suffer all the refined cruelties of 

 scientific torture, while the medical biologists are 

 slowly training their eyes at the expense of their 

 hearts, and of every chivalrous sentiment of true 

 manliness and feeling of humanity.* Dr. Becker's field 



delicate chemical balance out of the cheap materials of a small 

 brass plate, a lath, and a sewing needle. This and many a 

 similar lesson, such as the use of small tubes in chemical opera- 

 tions, where truth and not display is the student's aim, make 

 this work of priceless value to the beginner in chemistry, and 

 are themselves the fruits of Faraday's training. 



* See Klein's Micro-organisms and Disease). 



" Dr. Becker then injected a small quantity of the same fluid" 

 (viz., putrid pus matter) "into the jugular veins of fifteen 

 rabbits, after having some days before fractured or bruised the 

 bone of one of the hind legs" (p. 81). 



Again, at p. 71, we read in regard to experiments on human 

 creatures : 



"Orth cultivated these micrococci (viz., of erysipelas) arti- 

 ficially, and with such cultures produced by inoculation 



