MEMOIR OF THE LATE DR. HENRY. 101 
with a perseverance and success that have been 
affectionately commemorated by his son.* The 
earliest impressions of Dr. Henry’s childhood 
were, therefore, such as to inspire interest and 
reverencé for the pursuits of science; and he is 
said, when very young, to have sought amuse- 
ment in attempting to imitate with such means as 
were at his disposal, the chemical experiments, 
which his father had been performing. A severe 
accident, which befel him in early life, by dis- 
qualifying him for the active sports of boyhood, 
must also have contributed to determine his 
taste for books and sedentary occupations. 
This injury, occasioned by the fall of a heavy 
beam upon his right side, was so serious as at 
the time to endanger life and materially to check 
his growth, and left as its consequence acute 
neuralgic pains, which recurred often after long 
intervals of remission, and with peculiar severity 
some months before his death. His fortitude, 
while yet a child, in supporting the sudden par- 
oxysms of pain, which were often so intense as 
to oblige him to rest in the streets, was most 
remarkable;—and in his efforts to banish the 
perception of physical suffering by an absorb- 
ing mental occupation, he already manifested 
* Manchester Memoirs. 2nd. Series, vol. iii. 
