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to attain inftant eminence as a phyfician 

 in that county, at his firft outfetting, and 

 in the bloom of fcarcely ripened youth ; 

 to continue a courfe of praclice, which 

 has been the bleffing of Shroplhire ; it's 

 iphere expanding with his growing fame. 

 That fon, who joins to a large portion of 

 his father's fcience and fkill, all the in- 

 genuous kindnefs of his mother's heart. 

 That fon, whofe rifing abilities and their 

 early eclat, recompenfed to Dr. Darwin a 

 fevere deprivation in the death of his 

 eldeft and darling fon, Charles, of whom 

 this memoir has already fpbken. He was 

 fnatched from the world in the prime of 

 his youth, and with the higheft. charafter 

 at the univerfity of Edinburgh, by a pu- 

 trid fever, fuppofed to have been caught 

 from diflecling, with a flightly wounded 

 finger, a corpfe in a ftate of dangerouily 

 advanced putrefaction. When fociety be- 

 came deprived of his luxuriantly bloffom- 

 H ing 



