MEMOIRS 



THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 



DOCTOR DARWIN. 



CHAP. I. 



DOCTOR ERASMUS DARWIN was the fon 

 of a private gentleman, near Newark, in 

 Nottinghamfliire. He came to Lichfield 

 to pradlife phyfic in the autumn of the 

 year 1756, at the age of twenty-four; 

 bringing high recommendations from the 

 univerfity of Edinburgh, in which he had 

 ftudied, and from that of Cambridge, to 

 which he belonged. 



He was fomewhat above the middle 

 fize, his form athletic, and inclined to cor- 

 pulence ; his limbs too heavy for exact pro- 

 as portion. 



