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MEMOIR OF CAJIPEU. 
associated with in London, induced him to revisit 
tliat capital during the vacation of 17o2. On tliis 
occasion, he resumed his various pursuits witli re- 
doubled ardour. Among other objects, his attention 
was much directed to the method of inoculating for 
the smallpox, the practice of which was yet contiiied 
to England. On his return to Franeker, he resumed 
his lectures, which were every year more numerous- | 
ly attended, and gained him such increasing cele- ; 
brity, that he was soon ranked as one of the ablest ! 
men of science in Holland. In 1755, he was ap- 
pointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the 
Athenseum at Amsterdam, and came in consequence | 
to settle in that city, then the seat of opulence and | 
learning. In 1758, he was appointed Professor of 
Medicine ; and thus delivered two other inaugural ' 
discourses, the former on the utility of anatomy in 
all sciences, and the latter Z)e Carlo in Medicina, 
In 1756, he married the widow of the burgomaster 
of Harlingen. 
After continuing six years in Amsterdam, his avo- 
cations became so multiplied and so fatiguing, tliat 
he resolved to change the scene, and, by doing so, 
to yield to the strong desire which Mrs Camper had j 
long entertained of retiring into Friesland. He ac- | 
cordingly resigned his chair at Amsterdam — being ^ 
allowed, however, to retain the honorary title of Pro- 
fessor; and, once more, he took up his abode at 
Klein-Lankum, his country residence near Franeker. 
His principal work during the time he held the chair 
