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and useful memory. In judgment he was very inferior to Mr. 
Cline in all the affairs of life, and hence was continually walking 
upon a mine ready to explode under his feet. His imagination 
was vivid, and always ready to run away with him if he did not 
control it.” 
Nine years afterwards he thus writes of himself : — “ As an 
operator for stone, aneurism, hernia, and the removal of tumours, 
prior to his giddiness, he was excellent; but after that time he was 
always afraid of being seized with them while he operated. He 
never was fitted for a very delicate operation.” 
His merit consisted in the quickness with which he could decide 
upon the nature of a case, and the readiness with which he 
adapted his means of treatment. His diagnosis was really most 
remarkable. He obtained that decision from having made it a 
practice, when young, to see all the poor who would come to him ; 
and thus he saw such a variety of disease as to make him as fami- 
liar with it as a parent with his child. 
His principle in practice was never to suffer any one who con- 
sulted him to quit him without giving them satisfaction on the 
nature and proper treatment of their case. 
He afterwards winds up his advice by the following remarks, 
which should be impressed upon the mind of every student. “ For 
the benefit of the younger members of my profession,” says he, “ let 
me tell you that this degree of success may be always accomplished 
to a great extent. Be kind to every one, and most ready to oblige. 
Learn your profession well — be an excellent anatomist, and under- 
stand well the practice and duties of your profession. Bend the 
force of your mind to some useful object, and be not multifarious 
or vacillating in your pursuits. Deep science is desirable to the man 
of fortune — useful science to the physician and surgeon. Let your 
zeal and industry be unbounded. My own success depended upon 
my zeal and industry ; but for this I take no credit, as it was given 
to me from above.” 
Mr. Bransby Cooper says, that one of his most striking and im- 
portant features was his love and respect for truth, and which were 
so strong, that if once he detected any one deviating from it he 
could never afterwards be induced to place confidence in him. In 
his professional life this love of truth rendered him the most effec- 
