MEMOIR. 



Carolina. I studied three winters in Edin- 

 burgh, and in the course of that time 

 gained a third intimate friend, the present 

 Dr. Robertson Barclay. I passed my pre- 

 paratory trials for the degree of doctor in 

 medicine in the summer of 1778; but did 

 not at that time completely graduate. In 

 the autumn I returned to London, and 

 attended a course of Dr. William Hunter's 

 lectures, and took instructions in prac- 

 tical anatomy. 



Having been about this time offered a 

 surgeoncy in a Scotch regiment, in the ser- 

 vice of Holland, to fit myself in some slight 

 degree for it, I became a surgeon's pupil 

 at St. Bartholomew's hospital for three 

 months. The only excuse I can offer for 

 my boldness in accepting this office, is, 

 that I was told by my friend who pro- 

 posed it to me, that the battalion to which 

 I should belong, did duty in the same gar- 

 rison with another battalion of the same 



