36 Memoirs of the late 
_ In due time he was sent to attend lectures 
and hospital practice in London. He had 
there the good fortune to become the fellow. 
pupil of the afterwards celebrated surgeon 
and anatomist, John Hunter, by whose older 
brother, Dr. William Hunter, a name well 
known, and honoured by every medica] man, 
the first course of lectures, attended by either 
of the students, was delivered. Ardent in 
the pursuit of knowledge, the young men 
contracted a friendship, which ended only with 
the life of Mr. Hunter. That gentleman, 
when himself a celebrated lecturer, annually 
exhibited an aneurismal preparation as the 
work of his friend Mr. White, of whom he 
took the opportunity to speak in terms of 
great respect. 
During his residence in London, Mr. White 
devoted his time, most diligently, to pro- 
fessional objects, scarcely allowing himself to 
partake of the amusements, so alluring to 
a young mind, with which the metropolis 
abounds. He afterwards passed a winter at 
Edinburgh, at a time when that University 
was rapidly rising into reputation, as a school 
of medicine. 
Having availed himself, to the utmost ex- 
tent, of these opportunities of professional 
improvement, Mr. White joined his father, 
