Sketch of the life and character of Dr. Abercrombie : read before the Harveian Society of Edinburgh at the annual festival, April 12, 1854 / by Douglas MacLagan.

  • Maclagan, Douglas, Sir, 1812-1900.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Sketch of the life and character of Dr. Abercrombie : read before the Harveian Society of Edinburgh at the annual festival, April 12, 1854 / by Douglas MacLagan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of his being a man richly endowed with the virtues and graces of the Christian character. To these, doubtless, we might add those parts of his religion, which were manifested only in the domestic circle, and those which were unknown save to Him who seeth in secret. But the pieties of the family altar and of the private closet need not to be dragged into light to establish the character of Abercrombie. Leaving them untouched, as being among the things with which, as a stranger, I cannot intermeddle, I find in the retrospect of what Abercrombie wrote and said and did before his fellowmen, the sufficient proof that he merited what he received at their hands, that good name which is better than precious ointment. Such was Abercrombie as a physician, an author, and a man. Active and alert in his professional vocation, zealous for the diflPusion of useful knowledge by his writings, religious in profession, and pious in life, he fulfilled the apostolic in¬ junction, and was not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. 28 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, 12^^ April i854.
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