text:  What say you to this by way of memory and quick intelligence?" The letter went on to speak of the facility of procuring subjects--as cheap and plentiful to use M'Linnie's phrase "as herrings in England;" of the daily exhibition in the dissecting room of disease of all kinds in all stages; of the enthusiastic natures of both teachers and pupils; of the earnest and inspiring character of hospital practice; and at last wound up its flattering history with a peroration that extinguished in an instant every spark of hesitation that lingered in my mind