Life of Dr. John Reid : late Chandos professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the University of St. Andrews / by George Wilson.

Date:
1852
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Credit: Life of Dr. John Reid : late Chandos professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the University of St. Andrews / by George Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    credit for the quick sense ofliuniour, the warm affec- tions, and susceptible imagination which he possessed. We shall see fuller proofs of this as we proceed. His appreciation of humour survived all his sufferings and trials, and often Hashed out most brightly, as fre- quently happens in genial and manly natures, when his state of health was most critical. His affections and the higher moral emotions ripened with his years and culminated on his deathbed. His early man- hood, however, was not unadorned by them. A sen- tence from the lettor to his brother-in-law, Mr.Taylor, from which I have already quoted, will shew that he could take interest in other things than anatomy. Referring to London, he says, “ Long will I remember that while £uear]] St. Paul’s one night, I stood for a while admiring the vast fabric before me, faintly illum- inated by the mooa, so that its limits appeared un defined, leaving the imagination to exercise itself in filling them up,—the far-famed bell tolled the hour, resembling the deep boom of a cannon, and producing an effect truly sublime.” He was caught still more off the guard he generally placed over the display of his emotions on another occasion. When he first visited the great picture-gallery at the Louvre in Paris, along with his friend Dr. Yose, he was so overwhelmed by the gorgeousness of the scene which suddenly presented itself, that his eyes filled with tears, and he remained for some minutes motionless, aud unable to answer the questions which his com- panion addressed to him.