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"From the experience thus obtained, from the happiness that has arisen from it, and from the use I know it has been to many others, I would urge every student, whether medical or general, to start life with a good biographical training. Some- times it seems to me as if the whole field of knowledge were open to a man if he first become conversant with the lives, characters and works of his predecessors who have cultivated the world and its literature." — Vita Medica.

Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, M. D. (after finishing his Disciples of .£sculapius).