 Fechner first studied medicine, taking his Baccalaureate and doctoral exams in 1822. But he quickly became dissatisfied with the subject. Although he had the right to practice medicine, he confessed that he did not have the least idea how to bleed an artery, to deliver children, or to apply a bandage (Kuntze 1892: 38). Medicine also did not satisfy him as an intellectual discipline because its theories were based more on authority and tradition rather than observation and experiment. Because of his intellectual interests, Fechner soon gravitated toward physics, which applied higher standards and more rigorous methods than medicine. He gave up most of his lectures on medicine and attended only the lectures of the physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878) and the mathematician Karl Mollweide (1774–1825). For a while Fechner became Mollweide’s assistant, but he confessed that he had little talent for mathematics (Kuntze 1892: 37). Weber’s and Mollweide’s work on perception would prove to be a profound influence on Fechner’s later psychophysics. 