1823.] 
of Master of Arts. His bursary 
obliged him to study divinity, and he 
felt a superior propensity to the study 
of anatomy and physic, to which he 
yielded: these he studied under ihe 
Professors Hamilton and Stevenson, 
After having remained eight years 
at the university of Glasgow, he in 
1771. caine to London, recommended 
by Dr. Moore, then surgeon at Glas- 
gow, under whom he had for some 
time had*the opportunity of seeing 
the practice of physic’and surgery. 
By the recommendation of Dr. D. 
Pitcairn, Mr, Cruikshank became li- 
brarian'to the late Dt. Hunter. He 
attended his Icctures, the lectures of 
Dr. Fordyce, and beeame perpetual 
pupil to St. George’s Hospital. The 
year following he became anatomical 
assistant, and then partner in  ana- 
tomy with Dr. Hunter. On the death 
of Dr. Hunter, Mr. Cruikshank and 
Dr. Baillie received an address from 
eighty-six students, then attending the 
lectures in Windmill-street, full of 
attachment and csteem; and, about 
the same time, the university of Glas- 
gow, of their own accord, conferred on 
Mr. Cruikshank the degree of Doctor 
of Physic. Mr. Cruikshank was also 
latcly elected a member of the Impe- 
rial Academy at Vienna, honorary 
member of the Lyceum Medicam, 
Leicester-fields, and of the Royal 
Medical Society at Edinburgh. 
Mr. Cruikshank and Dr. Baillie 
continued to teach the anatomical 
school, begun and long taught, with 
high and merited distinction, by the 
Jate Dr. William Hunter. 
In 1779 Mr. Cruikshank, at the 
desire of Dr. Hunter, wrote a letter to 
Mr. Clare, on the absorption of ca- 
Jomel from the mouth: be was then 
spitting blood, and, as he did not 
expect to recover, he introduced some 
experiments on respiration, and sc- 
veral of his principal doctrines respect- 
ing the absorbing powers of the human 
hody; but that letter has never been 
reprinted. - 
In 1786 Mr. Cruikshank published 
the “ Anatomy of the Absorbent Ves- 
sels in the Human Body.” Dr. Hun, 
ter and he were to have published this 
work conjointly, and accordingly a 
great many drawings of these vessels, 
in almost every part of the body, had 
been made year after year, till they 
amounted to that number,’ that, when 
laid before an eminent engraver, he 
said they could not be engrayed for 
Monty Mas, No, 385, 
Stephensiana, No, XX. 
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less than 800% As Dr. Hunter died 
before any other step than merely col- 
lecting the drawings had been taken ; 
and as he had made no. provision in ' 
his will for the expense of such a 
publication, Mr. Cruikshank reduged: 
the drawings to one, in, a general 
figure of the human bedy, where the 
different parts are seen im outlines, 
whilst the absorbent vessels are en- 
graved in their natural appearance. 
This makes his first plate. 
Mr. Cruikshank was one of the most 
indefatigable characters ever known, 
He rose every morning abont seyen 
o’clack, when his hair-dresser was , 
ready io attend him; and, even 
during that short imterval, he was 
always reading. He never took any 
regular breakfast, or ate any thizg in 
the morning ; a bason of tea was his 
only nourishment before he went ont. 
Generally from eight o’cleck to ten ke 
stopped in his house, and attended the 
poor people who waited on him, very 
often in suck a crowd as to fill the 
lower apartment, and some of them te 
remain outside of the street-door. 
From ten till one in the afternoon, he 
visited his patients in the several paris 
of the metropolis and its environs. 
From one to two he was perferming 
surgical operations at home ; from two 
tii four he was giving bis anatomical 
lectures in his theatre in Windmill- 
street: his usual dining hour was al 
four o’clock, but he was often so in- 
terrupted by a crowd of patients, even 
at this time, that he was prevented 
from taking any dinner before six ; 
from seven o'clock till about teu, he 
usually walked for bis exercise, and 
generally be employed that time in 
yisiting such of his patients as re- 
quired a second visit im the day; 
lastly, from ten, to twelve ‘he was 
always intent on anatomi¢éal dissec- 
tidns, on sundry nice experiments, 
or in writing Iclters and notes for the 
noxt day. 
The beautiful preparations in his 
Mescum in Windmill-street were all 
of bis making. They display exquisite 
taste and ingenuity of performance ; 
and the Museum is unquestionably 
one of the best of the kind in Europe. 
His anatomical. lectures continued 
eight months in the year,—from Octo- 
ber till May, Yn the remainder of 
ihe twelvemonth, evory moment whieh 
was not occupied in visiting patients 
was bestowed in composition of works, 
He died June 27, 1800. 
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