Excerpt from The Old Doctor, or Stray Leaves From My Journal: Being Sketches of the Most Interesting Reminiscences of a Retired PhysicianGentle, pious soul - her inclination led to the church as the profession in which she would have chosen to see her son figure, but my father had a great idea that a lawyer had a better chance of pushing his way upwards in the world. They had doubtless held many secret consultations upon this subject before, but the first inti mation I received of the destiny that was in store for me, was on the night of my eleventh birth-day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.