82 Dr. JohnJlGne's Aeount of the 



has undergone a fignal refornnation, and has 

 learned to fpeak the language of common fenfe, 

 and to adorn itfclf with the graces of tafle and 

 eloquence, Dr. Gregory cultivated an elegant 

 and juft tafie, clearnefs and beauty of exprefllon, 

 with prccifion of judgment, and extenfivc know- 

 ledge. With the circle pf fcience, he poflfcflcd 

 a great fliare of common fenfe, and of the know- 

 ledge of men. This he difplays in his writings; 

 and evidently carried into his profefTion a fpirit 

 congenial to that of the Gerard's and Beattie's^ 

 Gentlemen, with whom he lived in the clofefl: 

 habits of friendfhip. 



Having finiflied at Aberdeen his courfe of 

 ftudy in languages, arts, and philofophy, in 1742 

 he went to Edinbugh, to profecute the ftudy of 

 medicine. 



Having attended the excellent courfes of the 

 kte Dr. Alexander Monro, the celebrated Pro- 

 feffor, and Father of Anatomy there — of Dr. 

 Alfton, on the Materia Medica, and Botany — of 

 Dr. Plummer, on Chemiftry — of Dr. Sinclair, the 

 elegant and favourite fcholar of Boerhaave, on 

 the Inftitution of Medicine — of the fagacious 

 Rutherford, on the Pra6tice of Medicine — he 

 went to Leyden in 1745, and to Paris in 174.6, 

 for farther improvement. 



While at Leyden, he received a fpontaneous 

 mark of the efteem in which he was held by thofc 

 among whom, and by whom, he had been edu- 

 cated. 



