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at the taking of Oporto ; at Talavera and Albuera ; at the sieges of 

 Oliven9a and Badajos; at Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, and Toulouse. 

 In these fields of action he justly earned the highest reputation 

 among the British military surgeons of his time ; and all his 

 writings prove that they were to him fields not only of action but of 

 study. 



In September 1814, Mr. Guthrie was placed on half-pay, and 

 commenced private practice in London. After the battle of Water- 

 loo, he spent a few weeks at the military hospitals at Brussels and 

 Antwerp, studying chiefly those points of practice on which his 

 Peninsular experience had left him uncertain. Returned to London, 

 he commenced lecturing on surgery in 1816, and was appointed 

 surgeon to the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, the establishment 

 of which was chiefly due to his exertions. In 1826 he was elected 

 assistant- surgeon, and in 1827 full surgeon to the Westminster Hos- 

 pital. In the last-named year, also, he was elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society. In the College of Surgeons, he became a Member 

 of the Council in 1824, President in 1833, 1842, and 1854, and 

 during five years was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. [Nearly 

 all the foregoing statements are derived from an evidently au- 

 thentic biography of Mr. Guthrie in the 'Lancet' of June 15, 

 1850.] 



It would be very difficult to form a catalogue of Mr. Guthrie' s 

 publications, for he was always active in publishing his knowledge 

 and opinions on all the questions which he had had opportunities of 

 studying. His chief works are, " On Gun-shot Wounds of the 

 Extremities requiring Amputation" (1815) ; "Lectures on the Ope- 

 rative Surgery of the Eye" (1823) ; "On the Diseases and Injuries 

 of Arteries" (1830) ; " On the Anatomy and Surgery of Hernise" 

 (1833) ; "On the Anatomy and Diseases of the Urinary and Sexual 

 Organs" (1836); "On Injuries of the Head, affecting the Brain" 

 (1842) ; " On Wounds and Injuries of the Abdomen and the Pelvis " 

 (1847) ; "Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, 

 Spain, France, and the Netherlands," of which the last edition was 

 published in 1855, and comprised additional observations on the 

 Surgery of the Crimean war. 



Enterprise, activity, and self-reliance were the chief characteristics 

 of Mr. Guthrie's mind. His intellect was acute and clear ; his 



