MEMOIR OP JOHN HUNTER. 
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^ere afterwards copied out fair by another hand, 
yet, in every fresh course, upon any new opinion 
‘'Squiring to he stated, scraps of paper were intro- 
‘^ed, and renewed embarrassments were encoun- 
^^•'ed in explaining them. 
This unusual and extraordinary difficulty was ob- 
®®ii'ed in Mr Hunter, as we have already hinted, at 
early period, and it continued unabated, till the 
' ose of his career. It has given occasion to much 
^®>nark, and has been variously accounted for. Some- 
*eg no doubt must he charged to the effects of his 
®‘*'ly education ; for, as a contemporary observes, “ to 
^Wagine that this undertaking of lecturing was car- 
on with equal facility by John Hunter, as it 
®^*^d have been had he been properly educated, 
^e romantic, more especially as nature had 
^ery sparing to him in the gift of elocution.” 
Way further illustrate tliis peculiarity in Mr 
*>5'ters mental constitution, by noticing the ap- 
heen 
We 
h^srance he made on the celebrated trial of Do- 
® an for the murder of Sir Theodosius Brough- 
^on 
A plot, it was alleged, having been laid to 
^6 away with this young Baronet, a draught of 
. *'S laurel -water w'as administered to liim wliile 
Pcifect health, in consequence of which death en- 
of ' Iwurs, attendeil with all the symptoms 
f>,, ^°*®°niiig from that pre[)aration. The Oxford 
Anatomy, with all the faculty in the 
8 bourhood, liad decided that the deceased had 
poisoned. Mr Hunter’s high celebrity, and 
