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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the acquisition of tlic prize, iKjt in tliat preparatif^i of the mind for the seriouH ])u,siness of life whicli i.s tlie true object of education. This I fear was too much my case ; Init I sincerely Ijelieved at the time that I was following the riglit course in acquiring prizes, and for tliis I too much neglected the dis- • secting room and the bedside.' In the following summer lie gained the medal in the Botanical Class, and about the same time lie undertook a work which to the end of his life was a congenial one to him, by becoming secretary to the Students' Debating Society. At the close of the session ]ie went on a brief visit tc his friend C. J. Hare, who was then a student of Caius CoUes:e, Cambridj^e. This was his first long journey from home, and it bore fruit afterwards by filHng him with a desire to follow his friend to Cambridge, in order to complete his education there. However, in the meantime he continued the task of prize-winning at the Leeds School of Medicine, and he did so mth a success that was truly surprising. Mr. Braithwaite's ' idle appren- tice ' had suddenly been transformed into the most industrious of students, and such was his good for- tune in prize-winning that there positively seemed to be no limits to the honours which were within his reach. In the winter session of 1838 he obtained the silver medals—the first prizes—both in Chemistry and in the Practice of Medicine, and the second prize in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
