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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of the New York Hospital
The next day I announced my firm determination _to become a surgeon and in brief was placed later by our family physician, Dr. Benjamin Ogden, formerly resident physician of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, in the office of Dr. Gurdon Buck, who was then one of the surgeons of the New York Hospital and also of St. Luke's Hospital. He received me as a free pupil on condition that I was to assist him at his Operations and dressings, and to look after his city collections, and I later found out there was included, when I became a senior pupil, the duty that I should quiz or instruct the junior students in his office. Dr. Buck was'a large man with a face somewhat German in aspect, slow in action and in speech, but having a thoughtful mind and fertile in surgical expedients. He was a very reticent' person and, though I remained with him nearly three years and was considered his favorite among his eight or ten later.pupils, yet When riding With him in his buggy, 'which he drove himself, to see his patients or to go with him to the hospital, he seldom spoke unless 'to reply to my inquiries, which were but seldom made, for I was a shy youth. I remember driving with him from loth Street, where his o?ice was, to St. Luke's Hospital in s4th Street, and thence to the New York Hospital, in all a distance of six or seven miles, during this time he never said a word to me. I respected and admired his merits then and after, as a teacher, friend and colleague.
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