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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![physician in Leeds, wished him to go to University College, London ; but the young man had been fired by the wish to become a member of one of the older Universities, and, liaving seen something of Cam- bridge during his brief visit to his friend C. J. Hare, he urged his father to allow him to proceed thitlier in order that he might there complete his studies. After some demur Mr. Heaton consented, and the son accordingly entered at Caius College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1839. On his way to the Univer- sity he paid a brief visit to London, where he stayed with his mother's sister, ]\ii^s. Strange, and saw as many of the sights of the town as it was possible to visit within the two or three days at his command. Cambridge, however, did not suit him. He seems to have suffered from homesickness during his brief sojourn there, and also to have been some- what unwell. He was older than most of the men who were about him, and he found, after his active and laborious life in Mr. Braithwaite's surgery, that it was most distasteful to have to resume the quiet oc- cupations of the student. Moreover, the very instinct which had made him so successful a prize-winner at Leeds impelled him to devote his whole time and atten- tion to studies immediately connected with his adopted profession. It seemed a waste of time to be return- ing to the lessons which he had pored over at the Grammar School, when he now kncAv that it was to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
