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many to the r.uiiiber. While he pradifecl extenfively as a fur- w'SiL... 

 geon, his fldll in anatomy made him be confulted by many fm- 

 geons, older than himfelf, before they performed operations ; 

 and, in a few years, thofe who had been his pupils, praflifing 

 in diftant parts of the country, confulted him on fimilar occa- 

 fions. Befides anatomy, he taught botany and midwifery; 

 which laft he pradifed with fuch fuccefs, that he was called to 

 almoft every difEcult cafe near Glafgow. In Odober 1783, he 

 married Mifs Elizabeth Stirling, an accompliflied lady, 

 conneded with feveral opulent families in Glafgow and its 

 neighboxirhood. From thefe connedions, his pradice, already 

 extenfive, was very confiderably increafed. 



Anxxous to excel, not only as a £kilful phyfician, and an ex- 

 pert furgeon, but as a pubhc teacher, he was led to confider 

 every cafe that he treated more accurately than is ufually done 

 by thofe who confine their attention to pradice merely. Though 

 naturally convivial, and endowed witlx a confiderable degree of 

 his father's humour, he avoided company as much as he could 

 with priidence, and devoted every vacant hour to ftudy, and 

 efpecially to writing. He kept a regular account of all uncom- 

 mon cafes, accompanying the concKifion of each with remarks 

 fuggefted at the moment, and forming, at the end of each year, 

 a general table of the difcafes which had prevailed during the 

 different feafons. This plan facilitated his prac'lice, and was 

 highly gratifying to his patients, by convincing them, that then- 

 former complaints were diftindly remembered : But he had a 

 higher objed in view than the affilling of his own memory, or 

 the gratifying of particular patients. His objed was to have 

 pubhflied a Syftem of Surgery, illuftrated with cafes, of which 

 feveral are fully and accurately drawn up. As a fpecimen of 

 what might have been expeded from this work, had he lived to 

 fijiifh it, I fhall mention a few particulars, which, on account of 



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