20 MEMOIR OF BARON HALLER. 
freely, the parties tumultuously threw themselves 
into some scenes of pleasure which were very con- 
trary to liis tastes. At first, he himself took an 
active part in the sport, hut being soon checked by 
an internal monitor, he continued only an unwilling 
spectator. He perceived noth shame and grief, both 
in himself and his friends, that his senses were 
reeling, and his reason well nigh extinguished ; and 
subsequent reflection only adding to his pain, he 
fr om that time resolved never again to taste wine, 
to which resolution he scrupulously adhered till his 
dying day. 
His master, Duvemoi, making use of the Institutes 
of Boerhaave in his prelections, Haller was in- 
fluenced by a vehement desire to profit by the in- 
structions of this celebrated man ; and he determined 
therefore to visit Leyden, that he might derive 
benefit from a master whose works had greatly as- 
tonished him, and whose reputation was second to 
none who had appeared since the revival of science. 
Whilst Boerhaave taught medicine and hot; my 
at Leyden, Albinus was his associate in the school 
of anatomy ; and both of these illustrious men con- 
ferred conspicuous marks of their favour on Haller, 
which excited in his breast the most earnest solici- 
tude to merit their approbation. But there was 
another individual, a contemporary of these eminent 
men, whose influence wws, if possible, greater than 
that of either of them. This was the celebrated 
Ruysch, who at this time used constantly to frequent 
his museum, working amidst the innumerable objects 
