'Shall I study medicine?' : aspects and probabilities : first, wherein I come short, secondly, I shall pursue the right line of way, thirdly, I shall then have striven to some purpose : in some parts a réchauffé from Smiles and other authors / adapted by P.D. Handyside.

  • Handyside, P. D. (Peter David), 1808-1881.
Date:
1877
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Credit: 'Shall I study medicine?' : aspects and probabilities : first, wherein I come short, secondly, I shall pursue the right line of way, thirdly, I shall then have striven to some purpose : in some parts a réchauffé from Smiles and other authors / adapted by P.D. Handyside. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as Gladstone expresses it—When he works, to work;— when he plays, to play; when he fights, to fight; and when he has done, to shake hands. Lose not time, Students, hut cheerfully commence at once upon the duties of the moment. Eealize an impetuous longing to be at your daily labour in good time, recollecting that as is the self-denial, so are the ultimate honour and success to be reaped. Of Sir Isaac ISTewton’s passion for high science, and his eager desire to excel, it is said that his hand shook like that of an aged man, while he wrought out the problem of the sun, and was drawing figures of it. (Zdly) Once more—as to Method in your studies —a work well begun, says Plato, is half ended. Let your manner of working be to go to the bottom of every subject you deal with, mastering it in its minutest details. Ovid shows us, by the fable of the nut-tree, that the more it is beaten, the more plentiful the fruit. It is not so much the amount of time we have at our disposal, as the use we make of it. Give equal attention to all branches of your studies, the curriculum being cumulative. Avoid that delusion of appearances in attempting too much in one session, or —as Abernethy used to say—IMever put more into the oven than it will bake; else, loss of heart, disappoint- ment, and disgust, will eventuate. It is the daily little that holds; according as you sow, so shall you reap. And if you are, as you ought to be, a whole man to one thing at one time,—I’une apr^s I’autre—