The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . ime when the fame of the facultystood higher than it did then. Syme, Simpson, Bennett, Christison, Gairdner,Begbie and others constituted a teach-ing faculty rarely if ever equaled byany medical school. It was under thoseinspiring conditions that the writer firsthad the honor of becoming acquaintedwith Professor Syme, whose fame as apractical surgeon and teacher has beenenlarged, certainly not diminished, bythe lapse of time. It is not the purposeof this paper to review Symes profes-sional career, but rather to record, forthe e
The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . ime when the fame of the facultystood higher than it did then. Syme, Simpson, Bennett, Christison, Gairdner,Begbie and others constituted a teach-ing faculty rarely if ever equaled byany medical school. It was under thoseinspiring conditions that the writer firsthad the honor of becoming acquaintedwith Professor Syme, whose fame as apractical surgeon and teacher has beenenlarged, certainly not diminished, bythe lapse of time. It is not the purposeof this paper to review Symes profes-sional career, but rather to record, forthe entertainment of those who mayfeel an interest therein, a few personalreminiscences illustrative of his per-sonal character and the relations whichexisted between the great surgeon andhis humble pupil, the writer of thisarticle. At an early stage of my medicalstudies the plain, matter-of-fact methodof clinical teaching characteristic ofProfessor Syme impressed me so deeplythat it became the object of my ambitionto become associated with him in his S^- ^*-*—+ ^r.
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