the late Dr. Vultevey. 2Q3 



years, and made it comprehend every fot of lecSlures which 

 jean poffibly be conftrued as belonging to a complete medical 

 courfe ! 



As Dr. Pultenev had now airumcd a new rank in the pro- 

 feflion, it was advifahle that he fliould look out for a new 

 fitualion. The firll )ilan which fuggefted itfelf tp his London 

 friends, was to procure him an introdu6tion to the celebrated 

 tarl of Bath, then in a very declining (late of health. This 

 was eficifted ; and the earl, upon infpe6Fion of his pedigree, 

 recognized his dcfcent from the antient family of whicli his 

 own was a branch. [Te alfo, upon converfing with hin?, 

 was fo favourably imprefled with his profcffional and literary 

 merits, that he rcfolvcd to attach him to hinifclf in the cha- 

 racter of domeftic phyfician. He propofed to fettle upon him 

 an appointment of 400/. per annum ; and the connection 

 would probably have been attended with mutual fatisfacVion 

 and advantage, had not the death of the earl follov.ed fo 

 fpeedily, that Dr. Pulteney received only one quarterly ad- 

 vance of his intended falary. 



Not long after this event, a medical vacancy happening at 

 Blandford, in Dorfetihire, he was urged by Dr. Watfon, Dr. 

 Baker, and others of his friends, to go down and occupy it. 

 Provided with their warm recommendations, but an utter 

 flranger to all the inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, 

 he fixed his abode in that fpot which was to be his rcfidence 

 during the whole remainder of his life. A fniall country 

 town, in the midft of a neighbourhood compofed of the 

 ufual ingredients of provincial fnciety, was not, perhaps, 

 cxadtly the fituation mofl: defn-able to a man whofe mind 

 was enlarged by free fpcculation and fcientilic purfuit : but 

 it was now Dr. Pultcney's bufincfs to ellablifli himfelf in his 

 profeflion ; and to that objert, prudence required that facri- 

 fices {liould be made. This is, indeed, the condition of all 

 who have their way to make in the world; and perhaps a 

 juft fenfe of true dignify of charafter, a> well as regard tQ 

 pecuniary advantage, fliould lead a man to place before him, 

 as his prhiuny objcd, the attainment of fucccfs in the pro- 

 feffion which he has chofcn ; and to confuler as fecondary 

 and fubordinate all reputation or gratificaiion derived from 

 other fburces. Dr. Pulteney, therefore, fcems to have fat 

 down with the refolution, not only of fulfilling his medical 

 duties with the utmofl punftualily, but of avoiding every 

 thing which might in the leaft degree involve him in difler- 

 cnces with thole on whofe good (Opinion he was lo depend. 

 He was fenfible that by his removal he had entirely cLuunrcd 

 his latitude) and though lie was not a man lo fliift his (i-n- 

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