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Excerpt from Lectures on Clinical Medicine, Vol. 2: Delivered at the Hotel-Dieu, Paris
Although the clinic is the copestone of medical study, I would not wish you to suppose that it ought to be deferred till you have nearly reached the close of your curriculum as students. From the day on which a young man wishes to be a physician, he ought to attend the hospitals. It is essential to see - to be always seeing sick persons. The heterogeneous materials, though amassed without order or method, are nevertheless excellent materials they are for the present useless, but you will, at a later date, find them stored in the treasure-house of your memories. I am now an old man, yet I re member the patients whom I saw forty years ago, when on the threshold of my career. I recollect their principal symptoms, their anatomical lesions, and the numbers of their beds; and sometimes the names even of the patients come into my mind, after that long interval of time. These recollections are of service to me; they still afford me instruction, and you sometimes hear me appeal to them at our clinical meetings.
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