Excerpt from Confessions of an English Doctor Allow me to give a few thumb-nail sketches of myself and a few friends. I went to Edinburgh to study medicine, after being coached specially for the preliminary examination. I did not feel in the least inclined to become a model student: I was to some extent interested in the subjects which I had to study, but I occupied myself with so many things in general that I could never approach anywhere near the exemplary. Indeed, I always looked upon an exemplary student as a most uninteresting narrow-minded, and one-sided specimen of humanity. I attended nearly all lectures, it is true, partly because I was interested, but also because I felt I ought to do so; but I was not inclined to spend much time over medical books. I liked to be left alone to study anything I chose; and what I liked best of all were "the affairs of men." In my early student days I found so many opportunities for learning everything, including just a little medicine and surgery, that life in Edinburgh was to me most entrancing. Almost every pursuit appeared to be within my reach in this wonderful city. 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.