medical

The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.

When he reached my sister’s side she was unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for she slowly sank and died without having recovered her consciousness.

The train of reasoning ran, ‘Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man.

Now I am aware that he is not only one of the heads of the medical school of the university, but a thinker of European reputation in more than one branch of science.