PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. 11- 
spice. This beverage was carried about in a 
bright kettle, and as the Church clock struck 
twelve the ‘ het pint ’ was handed round and 
drunk amid cheers. 
While at Edinburgh, he received many letters 
from his mother. The first that is preserved is 
dated from Lancaster, March 4, 1825. In it she 
says she has had a call from a friend of his 
resident in Edinburgh, during a visit he was 
making to Lancaster. 
‘ He gave me,’ she writes, ‘a most gratifying 
account of you, and your comfortable lodgings in 
Nicholson Street, and appears wishful to show 
you every attention in his power. ... I hear 
that your thumb has again become inflamed, and 
am, my dear Richard, very uneasy about it. I 
therefore beg that you will take every precaution 
that is possible to guard against further danger, 
making a point of washing your hands as often as 
possible in the dissecting-room. All unite in best 
love, and that you may continue to enjoy health, 
and also the regard and approbation of the Profes- 
sors, is the constant prayer of, dear Richard, 
‘ Y our ever affectionate mother, 
‘ Catherine Owen. 
‘ P'S. You will let us know when you want 
money.’ 
At the end of April 1825 John Barclay 
strongly advised Owen to move to St. Bartho- 
