HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST,

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST,

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their studies this year who may not, if a reasonable ambition could desire. This is not a mere form of words; it is simple unimaginative truth. Nay more, although the wealth and honours of medi. cine are generally reserved for distinguished ability, the real prizes of the profession-a sufficiency in its material rewards, a constant sense of usefulness, the respect of your fellow. creatures, studies of the most delightful kind, containing mate. rial, of inexhaustible interest-these are open to all. Remem. ber, then, the critical importance to you of the next six months, remember your difficulties, and remember their remedy; and remember, too, that if there is one thing in this world that is perfectly certain, it is, that a pupilage of diligent study is the introduction to a life of successful practice. commence

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friend, who will never leave you and never deceive you who will never play you false, not even if you are false t( it, -that aliquid divini particulam, that single vestige o conscience. Happy the man wh( our divine original, has a home in London! happier still the man whos< domestic affections, with all their purifying influences, are s( inwrought in his nature, that he carries his home with hin: wherever he goes ! Depend upon it, until you come to Londor and stand alone you are untried men ; depend upon it, too, that the next six months will be the turning-point of your professional life,-and with the cast of your professional life how much of your moral and physical and domestic life is involved What your next six months will be, that your whole student-life SUPPLEMENTARY NOTICES OF will be; and what your student-life in London is, such will be HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS FOR SPECIAL MEyour future professional career. It is hardly too much to affirm DICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE METROPOLIS. this. We know that men sometimes imagine that they are BETHLEM HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS, going to sow a few wild oats at first, and waste a few months, St. George’s-fields, Southwark. and then be very steady and industrious afterwards. But it is Resident all a delusion-all moonshine-they never do it! It is very Physician and Medical Superintendent-Dr. W. C. Hood. rare for a man who begins well to end badly ; rarer still for a Surgeon-Mr. W. Lawrence. man who begins badly to end well. If you can, next March, Resident Apothecary-Dr. W. Helps. Steward-G. Haydon. look back on six months in which you have learned " to scorn Clerk-Mr. A. M. Jeaffreson. delights and live laborious days," you may make your minds easy as to the future. The man who has once tasted the deST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS, Old-street. lights of study, and the sweets of success, will never be satisfied with pleasures of a lower order. But if that period is P7tysicia,ns-Dr. Alex. J. Sutherland, F. li. S.; Dr. Henry Munro. Surgeon-Mr. James Luke. spent in blunting and deadening the sense of what is right, and Resident Medical Superintendent -Dr. Henry Stevens. in a constant disregard of the monitions of conscience; if it is The practice of this hospital is open to a limited number of spent in discounting the future for the sake of the present, pupils. Lectures on the Nature and Treatment of Insanity are dedaily adding to the lee-way, postponing for the future an livered annually by Dr. Sutherland, and clinical lectures are impossible amount of work, and throwing the weight of given from time to time. Clinical clerks are also selected from such pupils as have habit into the wrong scale, you will be placing yourselves at a three months’ attendance on the hospital practice. completed terrible disadvantage for the future, and will be accumulating Sessions of three months each commence on October 1st, great and daily increasing odds against your ever either loving January 1st, and May 1st, in every year. Fee for each The difficulties that beset the session, £33s. or knowing your profession. first-year’s student are very great, and it is not by disguising HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, or ignoring them that we shall prepare you for overcoming Bromptan. them. There are the difficulties of the subjects of study J. Forbes, Dr. C. J. B. Williams, themselves, the difficulty of self-distrust so common with stu- Consulting-Physicians-Sir and Dr. Walshe. dents at first, the difficulty of eradicating old habits and form- Physicians-Dr. Hamilton Roe, Dr. Theophilus Thompson, Dr. Cursham, Dr. Cotton, and Dr. Quain. ing good new ones, the difficulty of keeping up hopeful and Scott Alison, Dr. Pollock, and Dr. Assistant-Phy7zysicians-Dr. energetic work through a long probation, the difficulty of , Edward Smith. -

Consulting-Surgeon-Mr. Fergusson.

resisting temptation. "Would you, then, learn to dissipate the band Of these huge, threat’ning difficulties dire, That in the weak man’s way like lions stand, His soul appal, and damp his rising fire 2? Resolve! resolve ! and to be men aspire. Exert that noblest privilege, alone Here to mankind indulged-control desire; Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne, Speak the commanding word, ’I will!’ and it is done."

Resident Medical Officer-Mr. Vertue Edwards. The number of in-patients in 1856 was 827; of out-patients, 3368. Pupils are admitted to the hospital practice. Fees: for three months, £3 3s.; for six months, £5 5s. ; perpetual, £10 10s. Clinical instruction is given daily by the Physicians and

Assistant-Physicians. Clinical Assistants reside in the hospital. Pupils are eligible to these appointments, which are held for six months. The Resident Medical Officer, Mr. Edwards, receives two dispensary pupils; and further particulars may be learned from him at the hospital.

remedy is as simple and as certain as the difficulties are great. Stick to your books, your lectures, your dissections, your hospital practice, " with a will," and the LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, thing is done; half the difficulties will immediately vanish, and I Liverpool-road, Islington. the other half will soon yield. You will have to draw on your Physicians--Dr. Tweedie and Dr. Southwood Smith. faith, your hope, your resolution, your mental abilities, your Assistant-Physicians-Dr. Jenner and Dr. Murchison. Resident Medical Officer-Dr. J. D. Scurrah. physical powers; but do not be afraid of " over-drawing" yourThe hospital has 200 beds, 2300 cubic feet of air to each The

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