CHAPTEE II 



1841-1846 



THE migration to Rotherhithe, noted under date of 

 January 9, 1841, was a fresh step in his career. In 

 1839 both his sisters married, and both married 

 doctors. Dr. Cooke, the husband of the elder sister, 

 who was settled in Coventry, had begun to give him 

 some instruction in the principles of medicine as early 

 as the preceding June. It was now arranged that he 

 should go as assistant to Mr. Chandler, of Rother- 

 hithe, a practical preliminary to walking the hospitals 

 and obtaining a medical degree in London. His 

 experiences among the poor in the dock region of the 

 East of London for Dr. Chandler had charge of the 

 parish supplied him with a grim commentary on his 

 diligent reading in Carlyle. Looking back on this 

 period, he writes : 



The last recorded speech of Professor Teufelsdrockh 

 proposes the toast ' Die Sache der Armen in Gottes und 

 Teufels-namen ' (The cause of the Poor in Heaven's name 



and 's). The cause of the Poor is the burden of 



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