Auenbrugger has, besides, the pleasant reputation of having been of great material assistance to a number of needy medical students during the time of their university careers, and to have frequently lent a helping hand to young practitioners in the city, who probably found it quite as discouraging, beginning practice in those days, as any of their young confreres of this generation find it at the present time.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Your worthy confreres will never know but that we've issued from the hive inside there.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
They had not been many weeks in their new quarters, when they began to pine over their altered fortunes, and it was with a sense of delight, which a few months before would have been incomprehensible to them, they discovered, that one of their officers had a brother, a young priest in the college: he introduced him to some of his confreres, and the natural result followed.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)