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to me, that a practice so auspiciously begun, 
should have fallen into almost entire disuse: 
and the decease of one of our original mem- 
bers, who held, during many years, a high 
yank in the Society, and was an early and 
zealous promoter of its interests, has incited 
me to attempt its revival, in the hope that 
this essay may be followed by more successful 
ones of a similar kind. 
The late Charles White, Esq. was born in 
Manchester, on the fourth day of October, 
1728. His father, Dr. Thomas White, was 
an eminent practitioner of the different bran- 
ches of medicine, especially of surgery and 
midwifery. Mr, Charles White was educated 
in this town under the Rev. Mr. Russel, a 
respectable clergyman, agood scholar, and 
a polite and well bred gentleman. The pupil 
made. a fair progress in classical learning; 
and, at avery early age, was taken under 
his father’s professional tuition. In this 
situation he soon evinced great activity and 
talent, and began, while almost a boy, to 
practise in a line, which was then generally 
confided to men of mature age. ‘This early 
introduction laid the foundation, and perhaps 
was a principal cause, of the high character 
which Mr. White afterwards acquired in 
that department of the medical profession. 
