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 the daily duties of Hospital life, I strongly advise a visit to one of the German Universities, or to Paris, to acquire the key to the two languages in which the best modern books are written; and to widen the mind by seeing the aspect of science and affairs from a Continental standpoint. It is lamentable that there is so little professional intercourse between the students of one of our London Schools and the teachers of another. The laudable energy which has made each of them complete, and well-equipped Colleges has had this drawback, that at the present day the attention of a diligent student is more confined to the teaching and practice of his own school than it was sixty or seventy years ago. The narrowness and prejudice bred by this isolation may be corrected by a visit to the