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道，他只不过是出于一种钻研的精神，想准确地弄清这种药物的效

果。平心而论，我认为他自己也会愿意吃下去的。他似乎对确切、精
准的知识很热衷。”

"Very right too."

“这样也是对的呀。”

"Yes, but it may be pushed to excess. When it comes to
beating the subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick, it

is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape."

“是的，但这份精神或许有点儿过头了。他还在解剖室里用棍子抽
打尸体，这看上去就很怪异了吧。”

"Beating the subjects!"

“抽打尸体！”

"Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after
death. I saw him at it with my own eyes."

“是啊，为了查证人死以后还能造成什么程度的伤痕。我亲眼看见

他这么做的。”

"And yet you say he is not a medical student?"

“你不是说过，他不是学医的吗？”

"No. Heaven knows what the objects of his studies are.
But here we are, and you must form your own impressions
about him." As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and
passed through a small side-door, which opened into a wing

of the great hospital. It was familiar ground to me, and I
needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone
staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its
vista of whitewashed wall and duncoloured doors. Near the

further end a low arched passage branched away from it
and led to the chemical laboratory.