

MEMOIR. 



returned to Edinburgh, and in the autumn 

 of the same year, published my Thesis, 

 and received the honour of being made 

 Doctor in Medicine. While I was at 

 Edinburgh at this time, I formed a fourth 

 intimate friendship, namely, one with the 

 present Dr. Lister of London. 



Carolina had now been lately conquered 

 by the king's troops; in consequence of 

 which, soon after my arrival in London, 

 in the autumn of that year, 1780, my 

 father requested me to go to that country, 

 to look after his affairs, which had been 

 greatly injured during the war; and as he 

 had not been at all satisfied with my bro- 

 ther's conduct of them, who was the only 

 one of the family that was now there. I 

 arrived in Carolina in the beginning of the 

 year 1781, and found his property there 

 much diminished from various causes; 

 amongst others, the burning of two valu- 

 able houses which had not been insured. 

 I still however was able to render him 



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