Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painful loss of my health, for I have never been quite well since, and have seldom been twelve months together in the same place. In my wanderings I became acquainted with Dr. Martin Hesselius, a wanderer like myself, like me a physician, and like me an enthusiast in his profession. Unlike me in this, that his wanderings were voluntary, and he a man, if not of fortune, as we estimate fortune in England, at least in what our forefathers used to term "easy circumstances." He was an old man when I first saw him; nearly five-and-thirty years my senior.
- | Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- | Publisher: Blurb
- | Publication Date: February 28, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 144 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1388271540
- | ISBN-13: 9781388271541
- Author:
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Publisher:
- Blurb
- Publication Date:
- February 28, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 144 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1388271540
- ISBN-13:
- 9781388271541