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vember of the fame year, he was admitted a Fellow of the ^ij A^Iofck. 

 Royal College of Phyficians of Edinburgh. 



But after Dr Cunningham (for at that time he bore the 

 name of his father) had received thefe diftinguifhing marks of 

 attention at home, he was ftill anxious to obtain farther know- 

 ledge of his profefEon by the profecution of his ftudies abroad. 

 With this intention, he made the tour of Europe ; and although 

 medicine was uniformly his firft and principal object, yet other 

 arts and fciences were not neglecfled. During this tour, he re- 

 fided for a confiderable time in Italy ; and there an elegant 

 claffical tafte, and extenfive knowledge of the hiftory and anti- 

 quities of the country, could not fail to afford him a very high 

 degree of gratification. 



Upon his return to Britain, Mr Hooke, a gentleman with 

 whom he had formed an intimate friendfhip, and who poffef- 

 fed a large fortune in Pembrokefhire, perfuaded him to fettle as 

 a Phyfician in that country. For feveral years he pradlifed me- 

 dicine there with great reputation and fuccefs, and was much 

 refpedled and admired, both as a Phyfician and a Man. But 

 his immediate elder brother Sir William Dick, dying without 

 ifTue, he fucceeded to the family-eftate and title, afluming, from 

 that time, in terms of the patent and entail of that eftate, the 

 name and arms of Dick. Very foon after the death of his 

 brother, he left Pembrokefhire, and fixed his refidence at the 

 family-feat of Preftonfield in Mid Lothian, little more than a 

 mile from the city of Edinburgh. 



Although he now refolved to relinquifh medicine as a lu- 

 crative profeffion, yet, from inclination, he ftill continued to 

 cultivate it as an ufeful fcience. With this view, he fupported 

 a friendly and intimate correfpondence with the Phyficians of 

 Edinburgh ; and he foon diftinguiflied himfelf, by paying par- 

 ticular attention to the bufinefs of the Royal College, among 

 the lift of whofe members his name had been inrolled at a very 

 early period of his life. In the year 1756, he was unani- 



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