6S6     PRINCIPLES    OF    TREATMENT   AND    PROPHYLAXIS.
mnemonic  faculty  is  calculated  to  strengthen  it ;  nor  do  I
believe  that  this  or  any  other  faculty  ought  to  be  so
severely  pressed.  I  have  a  lively  recollection  of  the
long-sustained  exertion  it  required ;  how,  week  after
week,  we  rose  early,  and  late  took  rest,  in  our  anxiety  to
outstrip  others,  upon  which  our  station  in  the  school,
and,  I  may  say,  the  bread of  many  of  us  depended.  This
custom  is,  I  hope,  now,  thougli  not  given  up,  modified.
