Life of Dr. John Reid / by George Wilson.

  • George Wilson
Date:
1852
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Credit: Life of Dr. John Reid / by George Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the slightest seruple, the pronunciation of any word that I have the least doubt about. « | have now seen a number of the celebrated surgeons and physicians of whom I have read and heard so much. I cannot help feeling disappointed after seeing most of the celebrated men I have seen. We are apt to expect something particularly striking about them, and we are disappointed to find them so much resemble their fellow-mortals. Perhaps part of this may arise from our having previously figured in our own minds something like a portrait of the man whose writings we have read and admired so much, and when our anxious eyes get the first glimpse of the real man, we feel somewhat astonished and disappointed at seeing him so different from what we expected.” To his Father. * Paris, December 23, 1831. _ “T go to one of the hospitals for three hours in the morning before breakfast; immediately after breakfast I go to the dissecting-rooms for three or four hours, then attend a lecture or two, return to dinner, and pass the.evening at home. In the room where I dissect there are eight persons—one Scotchman, two Englishmen, one Frenchman, one German, one from the United States of America, and one from the Cape of Good Hope. . . . I feel myself as much at home here, and as comfortable, as a person can be at Paris.” In the close of this letter, which is long, and filled with descriptions of the Parisian edifices, gardens, and the like, occurs a passage very significant when taken in connection with the devoted study of the Scriptures, and great mastery of. their contents, which characterised a later period in Dr Reid’s life: « told me that my mother was angry that Thad forgot my Bibles. I had really so many things to take, that I thought I might leave them, because Bibles are to be B
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