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occasion to witness the medical and surgical practice among the sick 

 and wounded. His * Travels in Hungary/ published in the year 

 1818, had reference to this period, and were deservedly popular. His 

 account of the gipsies in that country was especially interesting ; and 

 his sketches, from which all the plates in that work are copied, 

 showed his artistic skill to great advantage. 



In December 1816 he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of 

 Physicians, and was soon after elected Assistant Physician to the 

 London Fever Hospital. In the zealous discharge of his duties there, 

 he contracted fever during a severe epidemic, and narrowly escaped 

 with his life. In the autumn of 1818 he again set out on a visit 

 to the Continent, and soon after his return to England, in 1820, 

 commenced practice as a physician in London. From this time he 

 concentrated the whole of his public duties on Guy's Hospital, of 

 which he became Assistant Physician, holding that appointment until 

 1824, when he succeeded to the office of Physician. His devotion to 

 the duties of his profession, and to pathology in particular, through- 

 out the period of his connexion with Guy's Hospital, was most re- 

 markable. During many years he spent at least six hours a day in 

 that great practical school, and his indefatigable industry and un- 

 rivalled talent for observation then laid the foundation for his well- 

 known discoveries in renal disease. 



After giving lectures on medical botany, Dr. Bright, in 1824, began 

 to lecture on the theory and practice of medicine, and after some 

 years associated Dr. Addison with him in that duty. He also, in 

 conjunction with that gentleman, projected a work intended as a 

 class-book and entitled ' Elements of the Practice of Medicine.' 

 Only one volume was published, which appeared in 1839, and is 

 understood to have been chiefly the composition of his coadjutor. 

 Di\ Bright resigned the post of Physician at Guy's Hospital in the 

 year 1843, and on his retirement was complimented by the Governors 

 with the honorary title of Consulting Physician. 



In 1832 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, and in the following year delivered the Gulstonian Lec- 

 tures, the subject being " The Functions of the Abdominal Viscera, 

 with Observations on the Diagnostic Marks of the Diseases to which 

 the Viscera are subject." In 1837 he delivered the Lumleian Lec- 

 tures at the College, and he chose for his (subject the disorders of 



