FOOTNOTES:[1]Thewriter passed a few of the first years of his practice in the hospital of ——. While in this institution, he had, as house-surgeon, opportunities of becoming acquainted with the history of cases, and of attending and assisting in a great number of highly interesting operations, many of them perfectly unique in their character, and performed by individuals among the most distinguished in this branch of the profession. To the general reader, the mere technical narration of incidents of this nature would present but a mass of dry and unintelligible jargon. One, however, who has for some time voluntarily withdrawn himself from the active duties of the profession, to follow another pursuit, may be regarded, perhaps, as capable of portraying, with truth and clearness, the vivid scenes of his earlier years.[2]Since the above paragraph was penned, the Presbyterian Church has actually come to a violent schism.[3]There is some confounding of the genders in this verse, the only defence of which is, possibly, that passage in Milton, who takes a similar license:——'Hisform had not yet lostAllheroriginal brightness,' etc.Eds. Knickerbocker.[4]Mr. George Jones, who kindly took measures, when in England, (where he was born,) to prolong the still very respectable literary reputation ofShakspeare, by delivering a most inflated salmagundi at Stratford.[5]In the crypt, I was shown the elephant's tusk, on which the first deed of the land was inscribed.[6]Mr. C. was asked by a bishop if he knewDr. Hubbart, in New York, and was quite at fault, till he accidentally discovered that the prelate referred to the late BishopHobart.[7]See an excellent article, on a cognate subject, in theKnickerbockerfor June, entitled 'Dramatic Fictions.'
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[1]Thewriter passed a few of the first years of his practice in the hospital of ——. While in this institution, he had, as house-surgeon, opportunities of becoming acquainted with the history of cases, and of attending and assisting in a great number of highly interesting operations, many of them perfectly unique in their character, and performed by individuals among the most distinguished in this branch of the profession. To the general reader, the mere technical narration of incidents of this nature would present but a mass of dry and unintelligible jargon. One, however, who has for some time voluntarily withdrawn himself from the active duties of the profession, to follow another pursuit, may be regarded, perhaps, as capable of portraying, with truth and clearness, the vivid scenes of his earlier years.
[1]Thewriter passed a few of the first years of his practice in the hospital of ——. While in this institution, he had, as house-surgeon, opportunities of becoming acquainted with the history of cases, and of attending and assisting in a great number of highly interesting operations, many of them perfectly unique in their character, and performed by individuals among the most distinguished in this branch of the profession. To the general reader, the mere technical narration of incidents of this nature would present but a mass of dry and unintelligible jargon. One, however, who has for some time voluntarily withdrawn himself from the active duties of the profession, to follow another pursuit, may be regarded, perhaps, as capable of portraying, with truth and clearness, the vivid scenes of his earlier years.
[2]Since the above paragraph was penned, the Presbyterian Church has actually come to a violent schism.
[2]Since the above paragraph was penned, the Presbyterian Church has actually come to a violent schism.
[3]There is some confounding of the genders in this verse, the only defence of which is, possibly, that passage in Milton, who takes a similar license:——'Hisform had not yet lostAllheroriginal brightness,' etc.Eds. Knickerbocker.
[3]There is some confounding of the genders in this verse, the only defence of which is, possibly, that passage in Milton, who takes a similar license:
——'Hisform had not yet lostAllheroriginal brightness,' etc.
——'Hisform had not yet lostAllheroriginal brightness,' etc.
Eds. Knickerbocker.
[4]Mr. George Jones, who kindly took measures, when in England, (where he was born,) to prolong the still very respectable literary reputation ofShakspeare, by delivering a most inflated salmagundi at Stratford.
[4]Mr. George Jones, who kindly took measures, when in England, (where he was born,) to prolong the still very respectable literary reputation ofShakspeare, by delivering a most inflated salmagundi at Stratford.
[5]In the crypt, I was shown the elephant's tusk, on which the first deed of the land was inscribed.
[5]In the crypt, I was shown the elephant's tusk, on which the first deed of the land was inscribed.
[6]Mr. C. was asked by a bishop if he knewDr. Hubbart, in New York, and was quite at fault, till he accidentally discovered that the prelate referred to the late BishopHobart.
[6]Mr. C. was asked by a bishop if he knewDr. Hubbart, in New York, and was quite at fault, till he accidentally discovered that the prelate referred to the late BishopHobart.
[7]See an excellent article, on a cognate subject, in theKnickerbockerfor June, entitled 'Dramatic Fictions.'
[7]See an excellent article, on a cognate subject, in theKnickerbockerfor June, entitled 'Dramatic Fictions.'