Edinburgh, Scotland (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Lydgate did not mean to be one of those failures, and there was the better hope of him because his scientific interest soon took the form of a professional enthusiasm: he had a youthful belief in his bread-winning work, not to be stifled by that initiation in makeshift called his 'prentice days; and he carried to his studies in London, Edinburgh, and Paris, the conviction that the medical profession as it might be was the finest in the world; presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art; offering the most direct alliance between intellectual conquest and the social good."

"Edinburgh, 1810."

"Edinburgh • London • New York • Melbourne"

"If that naked old man crying in my lap had been born elsewhere, say Edinburgh, maybe he’d be knighted by now."