Note 11 — Chapter III
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"How happens it, Mæcenas, that no one is content with his condition, whether reason gave it him, or chance threw it in his way?"
[12] The assistant-surgeons at that period having no in-patients under their care, except in the absence, or by permission, of their chiefs.
[13] A public journalist was inclined to give this anecdote to another person. We then stated that we had it on the authority of a gentleman who was present. Such power of memory, though rare, is not singular; other examples have fallen within our own observation.