A biographical account of the late Dr. Henry / [William Charles Henry].

  • Charles Henry
Date:
1837
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Credit: A biographical account of the late Dr. Henry / [William Charles Henry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mentin attempting to imitate with such means as were at his disposal, the chemical experiments, which his father had been performing. A severe accident, which befel him in early life, by dis- qualifying him for the active sports of boyhood, must also have contributed to determine his taste for books and sedentary occupations. This injury, occasioned by the fall of a heavy beam upon his right side, was so serious as at the time to endanger life and materially to check his growth, and left as its consequence acute neuralgic pains, which recurred often after long intervals of remission, and with peculiar severity some months before his death. His fortitude, while yet a child, in supporting the sudden par- oxysms of pain, which were often so intense as to oblige him to rest in the streets, was most remarkable;—and in his efforts to banish the perception of physical suffering by an absorb- ing mental occupation, he already manifested that energy of resolution and purpose, which throughout life compelled a feeble bodily frame to keep pace with the exertions of an ardent and unfatigued spirit. Dr. Henry’s earliest instructor was the Rev. Ralph Harrison, whose repute, as a teacher of the ancient languages, was so widely spread, as