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He also went to Germany, spending some time in the principal 
University cities, and endeavouring to acquire knowledge beyond 
what he had already obtained. One of his acquisitions on the 
Continent was ability to use the microscope in practical medicine. 
Nor was his pen idle, for whilst abroad, he contributed no less than 
seventeen articles to Tweedie’s “ Library of Medicine.” 
In 1841 he returned to Edinburgh, and commenced a course of 
lectures on histology. He there took the opportunity of showing 
to what an extent the microscope might and should be used. It 
was at this time that Dr Bennett published a treatise on the use of 
cod-liver oil as a therapeutic agent in certain forms of gout, rheu- 
matism, and scrofula, — dedicating the treatise to Sir Robert 
Christison. In Germany he had seen the good effects of using this 
medicine in these cases. 
From 1842 to 1848 he continued to give lectures on various 
medical subjects. In the last named year he was appointed to 
the Chair of Institutes of Medicine, vacant by the transference of 
Dr Allen Thomson to Glasgow. 
For several years Dr Bennett was proprietor and editor of the 
“ Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science,” in which, 
besides editorial articles and reviews, he inserted multitudes of 
separate memoirs. 
In the “British Medical Journal,” where a detailed account of 
Bennett’s life and labours is given, and from which I have culled 
the foregoing notices, I see a list of no less than 105 memoirs on 
various anatomical and pathological subjects. 
In July 1848 Dr Bennett was unanimously elected to the Chair 
of Institutes of Medicine. 
Whilst teaching in the University and in the Infirmary, Pro- 
fessor Bennett found time for literary work, and published his 
highly appreciated “ Clinical Lectures on the Principles and 
Practice of Medicine.” This book passed through five editions in 
this country, and six in the United States, besides being translated 
into French, Russian, and Hindoo. 
The following additional works flowed from his ready pen. 
Their titles were, “Pulmonary Consumption,” “Cancerous and 
Cancroid Growths,” Introduction to Clinical Medicine,” “Outlines 
