24 MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 



associated with in London, induced him to revisit 

 that capital during the vacation of 1752. On this 

 occasion, he resumed his various pursuits with re- 

 doubled ardour. Among other objects, his attention 

 was much directed to the method of inoculating for 

 the smallpox, the practice of which was yet confined 

 to England. On his return to Franeker, he resumed 

 his lectures, which were every year more numerous- 

 ly attended, and gained him such increasing cele- 

 brity, that he was soon ranked as one of the ablest 

 men of science in Holland. In 1755, he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the 

 1 Athenaeum at Amsterdam, and came in consequence 

 to settle in that city, then the seat of opulence and 

 earning. In 1758, he was appointed Professor of 

 Medicine ; and thus delivered two other inaugural 

 discourses, the former on the utility of anatomy in 

 all sciences, and the latter De Certo in Medicina. 

 In 1756, he married the widow of the burgomaster 

 of Harlingen. 



After continuing six years in Amsterdam, his avo- 

 cations became so multiplied and so fatiguing, that 

 he resolved to change the scene, and, by doing so, 

 to yield to the strong desire which Mrs Camper had 

 long entertained of retiring into Friesland. He ac- 

 cordingly resigned his chair at Amsterdam being 

 allowed, however, to retain the honorary title of Pro- 

 fessor; and, once more, he took up his abode at 

 Klein-Lankum, his country residence near Franeker. 

 His principal work during the time he held the chair 



