...MEDICAL MONTHLY 223 wanted to know all about the clouds and the grasses, and why the leaves changed color in the autumn ; I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles...wanted to make an old woman of me, or that I should stuff Latin and Greek at the university," he said, "but these plans failed." John was always his mother's...

...the leaves changed colour in the autumn ; I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles and caddis worms; I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about." Genius knows no law in its own mysterious unfolding. John, like Topsy, "just growed." It was not till...

...leaves changed colour in the Autumn. I watched the Ants, Bees, Birds, Tadpoles, and Caddis Worms ; I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about." " I will only," observes Locke in his treatise on Education, " say this one thing concerning books,...

...leaves changed their colour in the autumn ; I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles, and cadis worms ; I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about." And as this was the passion of his boyhood,so was itof his more mature and later life. He was constantly...

...leaves change colour in the autumn ; I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles, and caddis- worms ; I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about." Hunter's scientific career dates from his arrival in London in 1748, where, when twenty years of age,...

...must have felt with John Hunter, the great anatomist, and could say that " as a boy I wanted to know about the clouds and the grasses, and why the leaves...questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about." We are sometimes told indeed that Latin grammar is pre-eminent as a training for the mind. In some...

...the leaves changed color in the autumn; I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles and caddis worms ; I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything." 3 In his unappreciated condition of learned ignorance he just missed becoming a cabinet-maker through...

...the leaves changed colour in the autumn. I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles, and caddis worms. I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about. They wanted to make an old woman of me, or that I should stuff Latin and Greek at the University (James...

...the leaves changed colour in the autumn. I watched the ants, bees, birds, tadpoles, and caddis worms. I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about. They wanted to make an old woman of me, or that I should stuff Latin and Greek at the University (James...

...color in the autumn; I watched the ants, bees, birds. page eighly-ihree tadpoles and caddis worms; I pestered people with questions about what nobody knew or cared anything about." A little time before reaching his twenty-first birthday, John Hunter left Scotland and went to London,...