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Excerpt from Adventures of a Medical Student, Vol. 1 of 2 The profession which he had chosen was well adapted for the study of the human mind and the observation of frail nature, stripped of its out ward trappings. The mind depressed with disease becomes careless of the worldly tinsel that usually screens its failings. The cloak of hypo otiay is no longer available; and when the patient has arrived at the state which leads him to seek for comfort from that source where it is never denied, the physician in such cases will always find suitable sub jeeta for deep thought and serious meditation. While attending the hospitals, Douglas had Mple opportunity for stu dy. Many of his tales are founded on incidents which be witnessed there, and which are sometimes pictured with a vividness and minuteness of detail that never fail to awaken an interest in the reader; occasionally too, by the way, to create a feeling something akin to horror. From such passages. Many will conclude that they were penned by an individual of gloomy character and morbid imagination. But it is not from his writ ings that a just idea of his powers or character can be formed, though the public, Of course, will judge of him from his compositions. Those who were long intimate with him knew well that his mind partook largely of the cheerful gaiety characteristic of buoyant youth, and had nothing of that gloom which is remarkable in his writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.