My father had built up a reputation for himself, and, what he prized still more, a competency as a country practitioner of the old-fashioned sort in the west of England. I had entered the medical profession seemingly with everything in my favour. It is a sad enough thing at any time for a man to have to confess himself a failure, but I think it will be admitted that it is doubly so at that period of his career when he is not only young enough to have some flickering sparks of ambition left, but old enough to appreciate at their proper value the overwhelming odds against which he has been battling so long and with such conspicuously poor success. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
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