Autobiography of the Late Sir Benjamin C. BrodieLongmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 187 pages |
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Page 60
... examination at the College of Surgeons was sufficiently good , as far as it went , but it was of a very simple and elementary kind . It was no more than a diligent student might pass without any special preparation for the purpose . The ...
... examination at the College of Surgeons was sufficiently good , as far as it went , but it was of a very simple and elementary kind . It was no more than a diligent student might pass without any special preparation for the purpose . The ...
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... examinations , my position in life afterwards would have been very different from what it has been in reality . It so happened that when I was about to give up my office as house surgeon to the hospital , Nicolson , whom I have just ...
... examinations , my position in life afterwards would have been very different from what it has been in reality . It so happened that when I was about to give up my office as house surgeon to the hospital , Nicolson , whom I have just ...
Page 96
... examination of the air expired with reference to the consumption of oxygen and the genera- tion of carbonic acid . In my second series of experiments I endeavoured to supply this de- ficiency . The experiments were made by means of a ...
... examination of the air expired with reference to the consumption of oxygen and the genera- tion of carbonic acid . In my second series of experiments I endeavoured to supply this de- ficiency . The experiments were made by means of a ...
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... con- ducted altogether vivá voce , except in osteology . It would certainly have been difficult to procure a regular weekly supply of subjects throughout the year for examination by dissection ; but a good 170 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE.
... con- ducted altogether vivá voce , except in osteology . It would certainly have been difficult to procure a regular weekly supply of subjects throughout the year for examination by dissection ; but a good 170 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE.
Page 171
... examination is the facility with which a student , having a good memory and a clever tutor , may qualify himself for ... examination than the elders of the profession . It would also be a great improvement on the present system if the ...
... examination is the facility with which a student , having a good memory and a clever tutor , may qualify himself for ... examination than the elders of the profession . It would also be a great improvement on the present system if the ...
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