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afterwards with advantage. This class perhaps includes the greatest part of medical students.
The saving of money may be thought more necessary at this juncture, when the check which our commerce has received makes it so scarce amongst us.
Some there are indeed, and not a few, who cannot by any means afford the expence of crossing the Atlantic, to prosecute their studies abroad. The proposed institution will therefore prove highly beneficial to every class of students in Medicine.
There is a difficulty indeed in the way of the undertaking of great weight, which it were to be wished could be surmounted; I mean in case all the different branches of medicine should be blended in the practice of any professor. This evil would call aloud for a remedy. The love of humanity prompts every ingenious man, engaged in that part of medical pursuits which he likes best, to prosecute it with assiduity and constancy. The bounds of life are the only limits to his industry. He devotes himself entirely to a toilsome study, but which ceases to appear so to him, when the interests of humanity are the fruits of his labours. There are men so intent upon improving favourite studies, that a labour of very many years is but a constant exercise of the eyes and hands, by which the science in general is greatly
