Copy 1, Volume 1

The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author.

  • John Brown
Date:
1795
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Credit: The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ** went the fame road to fchool with him 3 ** and his application, I well remember, was ** fo intenfe that he was feldom without a * book in his hand.” It is a fingular coin- eidence, that the two individuals, who in thefe times have been principally celebrated for their attempts to extend the knowledge of animal nature, fhould have been both natives of Scotland, and that each fhould have been put to a coarfe mechanical employment— John Brown to the trade of a weaver, and John Hunter (aceording to common fame and the report of one of his biographers) to that of a carpenter or wheelwright. By an anonymous writer, who feems well- informed, it is afferted that Brown ** fub- * mitted in his youth to be a reaper of corn ** to procure for himfelf the means of im- 5 provement. With the price of fuch la- ** bour he put himfelf to fchool, where his abilities and ardour attracted the notice ** of his mafter, and procured him the place ** of affiftant to the {chool (a). His revolt [2] ^ (2) Analytical Review for Auguft, 1789, P- 450. from
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