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In 1816 I was consulted by a young woman presenting general symptoms of disease of the heart. Owing to her stoutness [obesity], little information could be gathered by application of the hand and percussion. The patient's age and sex did not permit me to resort to [direct application of ear to chest]. I recalled a well-known acoustic phenomenon: namely, if you place your ear against one end of a wooden beam the scratch of a pin at the other extremity is distinctly audible. It occured to me that this physical property might serve a useful purpose in the case with which I was then dealing. Taking a sheet of paper I rolled it into a very tight roll, one end of which I placed on the precordial region, whilst I put my ear to the other. I was both surprised and gratified at being able to hear the beating of the heart with much greater clearness and distinctness than I had ever before by direct application of my ear. — René Laennec

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The stages of human life

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The hesitant fiancée, By Auguste Toulmouche

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James Paget recalls his medical training in London: I entered at St Bartholomew's Hospital on the 3rd of October, 1834. . . . There was very little, or no, personal guidance; the demonstrators had some private pupils, whom they 'ground' for the College examinations, but these were only a small portion of the school; the surgeons had apprentices, to whom they seldom taught more than to other students; for the most part, the students guided themselves or one another to evil or to good, to various degrees of work or of idleness. No one was, in any sense, responsible for them. I am not sure that, being well disposed for work, I was the worst for this. The dead-house (it was never called by any better name) was a miserable kind of shed, stonefloored, damp and dirty, where all stood around a table on which the examinations were made. And these were usually made in the roughest and least instructive way; and, unless one of the physicians were present, nothing was carefully looked at, nothing was taught. Pathology, in the fair sense of the word, was hardly considered.

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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." *Reading is fairly easy. You can even memorize facts and whole documents. But until you actually think about it, until you cut it up, chew on it, and thoroughly digest that information, you don’t really know it. *The glimmer of a thought or feeling needs to be set into motion. Thinking requires slowness and a process unfolding from within.

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It doesn't matter if you're talented or not. Just do what you can do (and have to do), and do it as best as you can... Something decent will mostly come out of it. If you're one of those rare talents, then it doesn't matter if you "know" that or not; your work will speak for itself. Gifted people are rare enough that they stand out really easily.

Bot: how can somebody figure out if they're talnted or not