1. Between "perspiration" and "tea"? 2. Why so? 3. Explain the relation between "Belladonna" and "deadly nightshade." 4. What advice is here given the medical student? 5. Are you required to learn the twelve pairs of cranial nerves if you are not a medical student? 6. What do the words printed in italics indicate in this exercise? 7. Is it essential for the medical student to know these uses? 8. What word indicates the number of pairs of cranial nerves? 9. Through what consonant?
Albumen, gluten, fibrin, syntonin, are closely allied substances known as proteids, and each is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
PROTEIDS ... Protector ... commonwealth ... for all ... _albumen_ ... all men ... liars ... fibs ... _fibrin_ ... brindled ... spotted ... sin ... _syntonin_ ... toe nails ... hoofs ... glue ... _gluten_.
The foregoing exercises show that there are no facts of Science, &c., or in Daily Life, with which the System cannot cope--thus proving the greatest saver of Labour and Time if the pupil makes an application of it to his studies or business when once he has mastered the system.
For the past ten years I have printed in my large prospectus a general view of my meaning. I will reproduce most of those views here, premising that I have never suggested that books are to be _learned by heart_, but only the _important_, _useful_ portions of them--such as are new to the reader and which he may desire to retain.
I do not mean such books as Bradshaw's Guide, the London Post-Office Directory, or any other mere collection of names, addresses, statistics, &c., which one may have occasion to _consult_, but which it would be the mere bravado of Memory to learn by heart--though even this is possible enough to the master of my System. What is one's object in reading a book? Simply to retain the IDEAS in it that are NEW and USEFUL to him, as well as the NEW USES that are therein set forth of _old_ and _familiar_ ideas. If the reader is already partly acquainted with a book, there will be fewer new ideas in it than in one with which he is unacquainted. Now, what do I mean by Learning either of these books in one reading? I mean exactly what I say. All that you desire to remember shall be retained--all the leading or subordinate ideas, propositions, illustrations, facts, &c., &c.