MEM-OIB OF DB WRIGHT. UJ 



in hunting the wolf on the first rise of the moun- 

 tains. 



While the other officers, however, were restricted to 

 these narrow limits, the medical skill of Dr Wright 

 introduced him to a wider circle of usefulness and en- 

 joyment. In many of the diseases which he had occa- 

 sion to notice during the excessive heats of September 

 and October, he observed a strong analogy with those 

 which are usually described as peculiar to tropical re- 

 gions ; and the remedies which this analogy suggested, 

 were found to be attended with the most successful 

 results. 



The ridicule of their great national satirist appears 

 to have never reached the medical practitioners of Ar- 

 cos. Bloodletting and warm-water, the favourite prac- 

 tice of Sangradoj was here the order of the day. At this 

 period, indeed, the medical student enjoyed no other 

 means of acquiring a knowledge of his profession than 

 by living in family with a practising physician, and at- 

 tending him on his visits to his patients. At Sala- 

 manca and Seville, and most of the other Spanish uni- 

 versities, the course of study seems to have been con- 

 fined to the philosophy of Akistotle, the doctrines 

 of civil law, and the tenets of scholastic divinity. 

 There was, it is said, at that time but one demonstrator 

 in anatomy in the whole province of Andalusia, and his 

 residence was at Cadiz. Surgery was in consequence 

 in the lowest state of degradation. The business of 

 the apothecary was distinct, indeed, from the practice 

 of the physician : but surgical operations were an 

 object of competition between the apothecary and 



