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good fortune came to him. As he had distinguished himself in the class 
work of his student days, and as at his graduation his thesis had obtained 
commendation, it goes without saying that he had been earning for himself 
the recognition and approbation of all his teachers. But among these, the 
late Professor Sir Douglas Maclagan had so clearly discerned his character 
and talents that he selected him as his Assistant in the Public Health and 
Medical Jurisprudence Department of the University. This opened out 
for Affleck the opportunity to acquire what everyone desiring to attain to 
any eminence in medical circles in Edinburgh must possess, viz. capacity 
to perform scientific work and practical experience in teaching. In both 
of these lines he soon gained for himself a solid reputation ; and as the 
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence was in those days also one of the 
clinical teachers in the Royal Infirmary, Affleck, as his Assistant, soon 
found himself becoming as well known and respected in the wards of the 
Infirmary as in the Medical Jurisprudence Laboratory and Classroom. 
About this time, also, his acknowledged literary leanings found expression 
in the contribution by him of the medical articles required for the Ninth 
Edition of the Encyclo^poedia Britarinica. 
Bearing all this in mind, we can easily understand that the amount of 
work which Affleck managed to get through in the twenty-four hours of 
each day for the first ten or twelve years of his medical life must have 
been enormous. Yet he never flinclied ; and though his rather slight frame 
might suggest fragility, he hardly ever showed fatigue, and he never was 
really ill. 
Having obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, 
Edinburgh, in 1875, Affleck was in 1877 appointed Assistant Physician to 
the Royal Infirmary; and inasmuch as this meant to him a future in which 
his energies would be concentrated upon purely medical work and teaching, 
he in the early eighties changed his domicile to Heriot Row, and gradually 
relinquished his general practice and other appointments. About this 
time also he started as Lecturer on the Practice of Medicine at Surgeons’ 
Hall; so that when, in 1885, he became one of the Ordinary Physicians to 
the Infirmary, he was able to prove himself almost at once one of the 
foremost teachers and clinical physicians which the Edinburgh Medical 
School possessed. On the expiry of his term of office in the Royal Infirmary 
in 1900 he was appointed Consulting Physician to the City Fever Hospital, 
thus continuing his active teaching work till 1908. But there were other 
institutions which were indebted to him for most valuable service, and in 
which he took keen interest. Foremost amongst them was the Longmore 
Hospital for Incurables, to which he acted as a Physician and as a 
