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ployment ; or had the more important 
avocations of his profeffion allowed a fur- 
ther indulgence to his favourite bias, fuch 
an union of natural endowments and ac- 
quired knowledge as he polTeffed^ mufk 
have placed him very high among the na- 
turaliils of this age. 
It remains for me to do juftice to the 
worth of Sir William Watson as a phy- 
iician, and as a member of fociety. But 
as thefe parts of his eharader have been 
already delineated with great truth and dif- 
crimination by my much-refpeded friend 
Dr. Garthshore, I fliall conclude this 
account by fome extrads from the Memo- 
rial read by him to a fociety of phyficians, 
of which Sir William had been the prefi- 
dent. 
i\s a phyfician, his humanity, affiduity, 
and caution, were eminently confpicuous ; 
and his exafl: obfervance of the duties of 
focial politenefs muft ever be remember- 
ed with pleafure by all thofe who en- 
" joyed the happinefs of his acquaintance, 
*^ The fmile of benignity was always dif- 
played on his countenance 3 he invaria- 
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