xri INTRODUCTION. 



to London/ entered into partnership with Dr. Hunter, gave 

 some of the lectures, and had a share of the profits. Their 

 anatomical school was in Litchfield street, where Mr. Hewson 

 lived, and took some of the pupils to board with him. 



In the summer of 1765 Mr. Hewson went to France, and 

 returning through Flanders and Holland, arrived in London 

 in time for the anatomical lectures. 



He went to the sea-coast of Sussex in the summer of 1768 

 to make experiments upon fish. His papers on the lymphatic 

 system of oviparous vertebrate animals were laid before the 

 Royal Society during the following winter, when he was made 

 a Fellow of that body. The date of his election was March 8, 

 1770. 1 To his recommendatory certificate, read December 7, 

 1769, and preserved in the archives of the Royal Society, eleven 

 signatures were affixed, among which may be noticed, John 

 Pringle, William Hunter, B. Franklin, M. Maty, J. Turton, 

 and James Ferguson. 



In 1769 Dr. Hunter finished his building in Windmill 

 street, where Hewson had a small apartment allotted to him. 

 They continued the lectures in partnership, dividing the profits 

 equally, Hewson giving more of the lectures than he had 

 formerly done. Though he did not seek much practice in 

 surgery and midwifery, his manners were so engaging and he 

 showed so much skill, that the profits of these branches of his 

 business were not inconsiderable. 



The Windmill-street School no longer exists ; but it will be 

 preserved from oblivion by the names of the eminent men who 

 lectured there. Among these the future historian of anatomy 

 and physiology in England will have to commemorate William 

 Hunter, Hewson, Cruikshank, Sheldon, Baillie, Brodie, Charles 

 Bell. 



Hewson, soon after his marriage in 1770, took a house near 

 Dr. Hunter, and they continued the lectures together during 

 the winter of 1771. The partnership was soon afterwards dis- 

 solved ; and Mr. Hewson began to lecture on his own account, 

 September 30, 17 72, in Craven street, where he had built a theatre 

 adjoining a house which he intended for the future residence 

 of his family. Before he began this course of anatomy, he 



1 Journal Book of the Royal Society, fol. MS. vol. xxvii, p. 321. 



