the late Dr. Pulteney. 291 



vol, lii. for 1761, giving an account of a Angular medical 

 cafe attended with palpitation of the heart and other uncom- 

 mon fymptoms, and which, upon difleftion, exhibited a pre- 

 ternatural enlargement of that organ. In 762 he received 

 the honour of being elefted a fellow of the Royal Society. 

 His name was now aflbciated to thofe of men of fcience in 

 various departments; arid his perfonal merits were becoming 

 known to a wider circle^f acquaintance, to whom he was 

 endeared by his modeft worth, and the good fenfe and dif- 

 cretion which peculiarly characterized him. Nor can it be 

 doubted, that, even with his original difadvantages of litua- 

 tion, he would have attained a refpeftable (hare of bufinefs 

 at Leicefter, though ftill in that inferior branch of the pro- 

 feffion on which he had at firft entered, to which, however, 

 he had added the practice of midwifery. But it was his lot 

 to poflefs a friend whofe ardent and enterprifing fpiritwas an 

 admirable correftive of his own diffidence, and who eftcemed 

 him too nnich to acquiefce in his continuing in a rank and 

 employment beneath his merits. This was Mr. Maxwell 

 Garthfhore, then eminent in medical praftice at Upping- 

 ham, in Rutlandfliire. By means of a common friend, much 

 revered by both, they were made acquainted in the year 175S, 

 and this acquaintance foon ripened into a warmth of friend- 

 fhip which death alone could extinguifli. As it was Mr. 

 Garthfliore's own plan, after a refidence for fome years at 

 Uppingham, to take the degree of doftor at Edinburgh, 

 where he had received his medical education, he ftrontrly 

 urged Mr. Pulteney to accompany him thither, and offer 

 himfelf to the examinations of the univerfity, though he had 

 never enjoyed the advantage of academical inllruftion there 

 or elfcwhere. His re!u6lance was at length overcome; and 

 the two friends fet out upon their expedition in the fpring 

 ot 1764. Mr. Pulteney was already known by reputation at 

 Edinburgh, particularly to Dr. Hope, the profeifor of botany; 

 and he had the benefit of his companion's extenfive connec- 

 tions in the place. He palfed through all the necefl'ary pre- 

 liminaries with credit, and in May received the honours of 

 graduation. The fubjeft of his inaugural diflertation was 

 " De Cinchona," or, On the I'cruvian Bark; of the natural 

 and medical hiftory of which important article he gave a very 

 fatisfaftory and inftruftivc account. The botanical dcfcrip- 

 tion is particularly accurate, and is iUullrated by a plate; 

 and his Thefis has been thought worthy of reprmting in a 

 collection of the mod valuable compofitions of the kind which 

 the medical fchcxil of Edinburgh has produced. 



A circuniltante relative to his graduation, honoural)le to 

 T 2, himfelf, 



