This is unlucky, but it may happen anywhere.

The medical body is not recruited exclusively among the eagles of science.

For one Baroni, who is an honour at once to Rome, to Italy, and to Europe, you naturally expect to find many blockheads.

If these are more plentiful at Rome than at Paris or Bologna, it is because the priests meddle with medical instruction, as with everything else.

I never shall forget how I laughed when I entered the amphitheatre of Santo Spirito, to see a vine-leaf on 'the subject' on which the professor was going to lecture to the students.
In this land of chastity, where the modest vine is entwined with every branch of science, a doctor in surgery, attached to an hospital, once told me he had never seen the bosom of a woman.