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One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to

the several professors of the university. In doing this, I

underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my

mind had sustained. Ever since the fatal night, the end of my

labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a

violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy. When I

was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical

instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.

Henry saw this, and had removed all my apparatus from my view. He

had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had

acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my

laboratory. But these cares of Clerval were made of no avail when

I visited the professors. M. Waldman inflicted torture when he

praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had

made in the sciences.