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39 treely detail, with a candour peculiar to great and ingenuous minds, the mistakes which he himself had committed ; observing that Surgery was to be learned @ juvantibus et laden- fibus, and that the ledentia were, and had been, very numerous. Of the honour and dignity of his profession, he was a zealous promoter, and a bright example; and a frequent admonition to the students was, “ that they were not to look upon the practice of Surgery in the narrow light of a trade, by which they were to obtain a livelihood, but as a science, still admitting of great improvement, by the due cultivation of which, their own respectability and the good of mankind were equally to be advanced !’’—To banish mystery—to give the clearest notion of the cause and nature of a disease—and to sim- �