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Credit: Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie : by Timothy Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![II I805-I809 Early Professional Life Assists Home in his private practice and at the College of Surgeons— Mr. Clift—Introduction to Sir Joseph Banks—Appointed to assist Home and Gunning at St. George's Hospital—Work in the wards and with the students—Mr. R. Keate—First steps towards the formation of a hospital-school—Lectures on Surgery at Wilson's school, and on anatomy—Brodie as a reviewer, IlpT}E,7]Q aiaxpov ttotb fifjTe ^ibt aSXov MfjT iciy ' TravTUJV Se jxaXiaT ai(TxvvEO aavTOv Pythagoras, Carm. Aur. (Motto of Introductory Address. 1843). AS soon as he gave up his office as house surgeon at St. George's, in order to become teacher of anatomy at the Windmill Street School, Brodie ex- perienced the first piece of good fortune, which set him on the road to professional success. This came in the form of a proposal from Mr. Home to act as his assistant in his private practice, his former assistant, Nicolson, having received an appointment in India. The offer was gladly accepted, accompanied as it was by the stipulation that Home was to have his young colleague's assistance also in his researches in compa-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21218468_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
