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tomy and Physiology, being the two Introductory lectures delivered at the 

 College of Surgeons on the 21st and 25th of March, 1816;" and in 1819 

 he pubhshed Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History 

 of Man." This last was the celebrated volume Lawrence was subsequently 

 induced to suppress ; but in 1823, Carlile, without the sanction or consent 

 of the author, indeed, in spite of anything he could do to restrain him, 

 printed and published a volume, entitled Lectures on Comparative Ana- 

 tomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man," which 

 included and was simply a copy of the two volumes mentioned above. 

 Many other editions, variously modified, afterwards appeared. The last, 

 called the 9th, was published by Bohn in 1848. 



Lawrence taught at the Aldersgate School of Medicine in 1826-27, but 

 he retired from this in 1829, v/hen he succeeded Abernetliy as Lecturer on 

 Surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He occupied this chair for thirty- 

 three years. 



In 1828 he was elected on the Council of the College of Surgeons, and 

 in 1840 one of the Examiners, and subsequently he was twice President 

 of the College. Moreover, he became a foreign Associate of the Institute 

 of France, and a member of a host of other societies. Then he was ap- 

 pointed, at first. Surgeon Extraordinary, and afterwards Sergeant-surgeon 

 to the Queen. Finally, he received a title. 



Besides the works already mentioned, Lawrence wrote much. He con- 

 tributed no less than eighteen papers to the Transactions of the Medical 

 and Chirurgical Society, of which he was for many years a member, and, 

 at one time. President. He wrote many of the articles on Natural Science, 

 some of them at a short notice, in " Rees's Cyclopaedia." He contri- 

 buted also to a work of Watt, entitled Anatomico-chirurgical Yiews of 

 the Nose, Mouth, Larynx, and Fauces." 



In 1863 (he was then in his eightieth year) was published his last 

 work, " Lectures on Surgery." This, in one volume, by no means em- 

 braces the whole course, but only that part of it which was devoted to 

 what may be called the more general subjects, such as the nature of dis- 

 ease, inflammation and its consequences, fever, wounds, and specific dis- 

 eases. This charming book appeared perhaps somewhat after its time ; at 

 all events, it would have produced more effect had its able and accom- 

 plished author consented to numerous pressing solicitations to undertake 

 the task — the materials being ready to his hand — many years before. But 

 as it is, better late than never. It is enough to say of it that therein are 

 embodied the most matured experience of the author, and the conclusions 

 at which he had arrived or the opinions he had formed on some of the 

 largest questions which arise in surgery ; and moreover it is written with 

 such soundness of judgment and felicity of expression, that it is not only 

 a highly instructive, but a very attractive volume. It is the work not 

 only of a surgeon, but of a scholar. 



On two instances Lawrence delivered the Hunterian oration at the Col- 



