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nated by the founder, Mr. John Fuller. In these courses, which num- 

 bered from ten to eighteen lectures each, his favourite arrangement of the 

 subject was that which he had adopted in 1807. After a general survey of 

 Cuvier's classification, he would treat, first, of the mechanical functions ; 

 secondly, the chemical functions, circulation, respiration, and nutrition ; 

 and thirdly those of the nervous system, and the intellectual faculties. 

 At Aldersgate Street he also dealt with the function of reproduction 

 and evolution. Sometimes, however, he divided his subject zoologically, 

 and dealt separately with each class of animals. In his earlier lectures 

 he made Human Physiology the basis of his comparison, which plan 

 he appears to have gradually exchanged for that in which the interest rises 

 as the scheme of nature is reviewed in successive stages from the lower to 

 the higher orders of the animal kingdom. At the Royal Institution in 

 1825 and 1836, and at the London Institution in 1826, he confined him- 

 self to one department, namely, that of the External Senses. The intro- 

 ductory lecture at the Aldersgate School was published by Longman and Co. 

 in 182(1, and of many of his lectures he furnished the abstracts published 

 in the Literary Gazette. In all these discourses Dr. Roget kept in view 

 what he had announced at Manchester as his leading object, namely, "to 

 point out, on the plan pursued by Dr. Paley, those proofs of infinite wis- 

 dom and benevolence which are displayed in every part of the universe, 

 but which are nowhere so eminently conspicuous as in the structure and 

 economy of the animal creation." 



In October 1809 he projected the foundation of the Northern Dispen- 

 sary, which, with the cooperation of many influential neighbours, was opened 

 in the following June, with Dr. Roget as its physician. The active duties 

 of this office he performed gratuitously for the next eighteen years. In 

 1825 he was presented with a handsome piece of plate by the patron and 

 governors. In 1810 he began to lecture on the Theory and Practice of 

 Physic at the Theatre of Anatomy, Great Windmill Street, in conjunction 

 with Dr. John Cooke, who two years afterwards resigned him his share of 

 the undertaking. Dr. Roget then delivered two courses a year until 1815. 

 Among his colleagues there, were Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir Charles Bell, 

 Mr. Brande, and other leading men of science. 



In 1811 he was chosen one of the secretaries of the Medical and Chi- 

 rurgical Society of London, of which he had been one of the earliest pro- 

 motors in conjunction with his friends Drs. Marcet and Yelloly. In the 

 same year he published a paper in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 

 vol. ii. p. 136, on "A Case of Recovery from the effects of Arsenic, with 

 remarks on a new mode of detecting the presence of this Metal," to which 

 he afterwards added a note in vol. hi. p. 342. In 1812 he wrote an article 

 in the Edinburgh Review, vol. xx. p. 416, on P. Ruber's ' Recherches sur 

 les Mceurs des Fourmis Indigenes.' He was also the writer of the Review 

 in vol. xxv. p. 363, of the same author's 'Nouvelles Observations sur les 

 Abeilles.' 



