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pleasing task. We therefore with confidence leave the 
subject. 
Made bold by our experience, and a desire for the con¬ 
tinued advancement of the profession, we will, however, ven¬ 
ture to add a few words of advice to the students, and they shall 
be but few, as we do not wish to anticipate and by so doing 
to lessen the force of what will fall from their teacher’s lips, 
albeit of this we feel assured, in our sentiments we shall 
agree. 
It will be your duty, dear sirs, to make the acquirement 
of a knowledge of the principles of the science you are about 
to enter upon your unremitting study. Early and late 
should these be sought by you. Eschew the useless and 
now happily almost obsolete custom of learning how to 
treat diseases by receipts. Study symptoms; carefully 
watch the progress of a malady, and be ever on the alert to 
detect nature’s deviations. Let all facts of any worth be 
indelibly impressed on the mind; and to effect this, let them 
be recorded by you. Our greatest men have not hesitated 
to do so, for although <f memory loves to be trusted,” she 
at times needs to be assisted. 
Your work is before you, and you must by labour acquire 
knowledge; which, indeed, is nothing-worth unless laboured 
for, since it is not abiding. The incentives thereto need not 
to be named by us. It is true that science should be loved 
and studied for its own sake, which is the highest and least 
selfish motive. It will be yours, however, to make it prac¬ 
tically useful hereafter. You have, too, arrived at a time of 
life when you can estimate its value, and a noble emulative 
spirit will be awakened in you by it. Remember what the 
poet has said: 
“ We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
Who thinks most—feels the noblest—acts the best.” 
Make, then, full use of your time, for “ time is the stuff 
life is made of.” Take industry for your motto, and swerve 
not from it. Be also methodical in what you do. Further, 
