Advice To Medical Students

Next to a knowledge of the profession, or even before t, the way to sueeeed in medicine is to possess a knowledge of human nature. That is to be got by living in public ; by ncessantly uiixing with your fellow-creatures, watehing thcir peculiarities, ijnitating their excellences, avoiding their foibles, and behaving yourself with truthfulness, frankness, generosity aud plain dealing. Shy men do not get on nell iu tho world, nor do absent men, nor do peoplo witha reservec and distraoted air, nor slow, awkwarc men, nor people who hedge, aud trim and potter, and never give a plain an swer to a plain question, and never seem able to form a positivo opinión and stick to it. But the sovereign cure for al these infirmities is the course we recom mend. Verify all facts by your own senses ; never bo a mere book-worm, anc never prefer solitude to good society. -