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PUNCH'S PENCILLINGS.--No. XVII.
[Illustration: SIR ROBERT MACAIRE
ENDEAVOURING TO DO AN EXCHEQUER BILL.]
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON MEDICAL STUDENT.
6.--OF THE GRINDER AND HIS CLASS.
[Illustration: O]One fine morning, in the October of the third winter
session, the student is suddenly struck by the recollection that at the
end of the course the time will arrive for him to be thinking about
undergoing the ordeals of the Hall and College. Making up his mind,
therefore, to begin studying in earnest, he becomes a _pro tempore_ member
of a temperance society, pledging himself to abstain from immoderate beer
for six months: he also purchases a coffee-pot, a reading-candlestick, and
Steggall's Manual; and then, contriving to accumulate five guineas to pay
a "grinder," he routs out his old note-books from the bottom of his box,
and commences to "read for the Hall."
Aspirants to honours in law, physic, or divinity, each know the value of
private cramming--a process by which their brains are fattened, by
abstinence from liquids and an increase of dry food (some of it _very_
dry), like the livers of Strasbourg geese.
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