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IN one sense at least, viz. his intellectual life, the medical student, natural enough in other respects, seems somewhat at variance with nature; his intellectual spring occurs simultaneously with nature's autumn. Brown October sees him change the abstractness of the class-room for the concreteness of the laboratory. Further, each successive autumn, after a period of summer hibernation, marks the advent of some change in his studies. The fully fledged doctor, too, whose daily round obliterates all distinction between term time and vacation, becomes infected in October with a revival of intellectuality, and whets his appetite by an attendance at the inaugural address delivered at his school, where he gets new knowledge or old dished-up afresh, and becomes generally imbued with the spirit of the time.
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T., F. Research Work and the Opening of the Medical Schools. Nature 60, 569–570 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060569a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060569a0