Sentences with phrase «ambitious young doctor»

Not exact matches

It was a «natural consequence of this state of things,» one doctor from the era wrote, seeing that «very few persons entitled by birth or other advantageous circumstances... would condescend to study, much less engage in the practice of medicine,» thus «poor and ambitious young men from the provinces were induced to repair to Paris and enter upon the study of the only profession through which they could expect to obtain distinction and worldly prosperity.»