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Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilità di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro è Non illustrato. 1883 edition. Estratto:...was when Boston had about onesixth of its present population, and, I suppose, much less than onesixth of its present wealth. We were so circumstanced as to be peculiarly rivals. Our business led us across each other's paths every day for a long series of years. What one gained the other seemed to lose. It would have been very easy for us to have got up a pretty quarrel at any moment, and, having once began, we might each have got partisans, and all the usual entanglements to such cases appertaining might have followed. Happily we pursued a different course. We met together with the feelings we had as fellow-students. We took much delight in consultation and discussion on professional subjects, and were ever ready to help each other. We have, indeed, maintained a strong personal interest in each other's welfare, and promoted each other's happiness. We do not resemble each other in temperament, and cannot see all things alike. From this cause, and not always looking at objects from the same point of view, we often differed in opinion. But we have always agreed to differ. We have not often disputed, and never have quarrelled on account of this difference of opinion, nor on any other account. In our intercourse with the sick each has given the other credit for what was good in him, instead of studying and publishing the other's faults. In every work for the promotion of medical science or for elevating the Profession we have co-operated heartily, neither of us trying to push the other aside. And thus it is that being now, as regards age, in the front rank of our own Profession, we have continued to this day on terms of intimacy and friendship. This is something to...