All 4 Uses of
specimen
in
Of Human Bondage
- In America we should call him a pretty fair specimen of a waster.'†
Chpt 25-26 *specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- It was a collection of pathological specimens.†
Chpt 53-54specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- Anatomy was a dreary science, a mere matter of learning by heart an enormous number of facts; dissection bored him; he did not see the use of dissecting out laboriously nerves and arteries when with much less trouble you could see in the diagrams of a book or in the specimens of the pathological museum exactly where they were.†
Chpt 55-56
- Then they showed him various specimens; he had been to very few lectures and, as soon as he was asked about things which he could not learn from books, he was floored.†
Chpt 59-60
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes