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In 1857-58 he became a teacher of medical science by his elec- 

 tion as Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence in the Old Qrosvenor 

 Place School of Medicine, founded originally by Mr. Lane as the 

 St. Greorge's School of Anatomy and Medicine, and the last of the 

 private schools in London. 



In the year 1861 the Faculty of the School unanimously voted 

 that Dr. Webb should be invited to deliver the introductory lec- 

 ture at the opening of the Session 1861-62. He undertook the 

 task, and chose for the subject of his discourse " The Study of 

 Medicine, its Dignity and Eewards." 



The success of Dr. Webb as a lecturer in a school of medicine 

 led to his election as Lecturer to the Metropolitan School of 

 Dental Science in Cavendish Square. 



The career of Dr. Webb as a public teacher was short. Both 

 the schools with which he was connected closed a few years after 

 ]ie joined them, and he never joined another. 



Dr. Webb, as a writer, commenced about the year 1857, his first 

 important literary effort being an article on the " Sweating-Sick- 

 ness in England," published in the 'Sanitary Review and Jour- 

 nal of Public Health ' for the month of July of that year, and 

 afterwards republished in a separate form. This article at once 

 stamped its author as a writer of much learning and of art and 

 judgment in the order of descriptive literature. The history of 

 the sweating-sickness was followed by another kindi'ed essay, en- 

 titled "An Historical Account of Gl-aol Fever." This essay was 

 read before the Epidemiological Society on Monday, July 6, 1857, 

 and excited great interest. The essay was printed in the * Trans- 

 actions ' of the Society. In 1858 an essay on " Metropolitan 

 Hygiene of the Past " was written by Dr. Webb for the * Sanitary 

 Review.' It was published in that journal in the January Num- 

 ber, and was afterwards reprinted. It is a brief and masterly 

 survey of the sanitary condition of London from the time of the 

 Norman Conquest until our own era. 



Following upon these efforts there came from Dr. Webb's pen a 

 review of papers relating to the death-rate of England, of Moquin- 

 Tandon's ' Elements of Medical Zoology,' and of the ' Teeth in 

 Man and the Anthropoid Apes,' in which the various publica- 

 tions on that subject by Professor Owen are carefuUy and philo- 

 sophically considered ; and to the last review was added an essay 

 " On the Teeth in the Varieties of Man." 



The connexion of Dr. Webb with the Metropolitan School of 



