An account of the life and writings of the celebrated Dr Archibald Pitcairne, delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1781 / by Charles Webster.
- Webster, Charles (d. 1796)
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the life and writings of the celebrated Dr Archibald Pitcairne, delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1781 / by Charles Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![[ ro ] of the productions of his leifure and his youth. After his courfe of philofophy was fi- nifhed, fome alledge he was deftined for the church *. The unpleafant gloom, however, which, at that time, hung over religion and its profelTors in this country, could not but very ill fuit with that na- tive chearfulnels of temper and liberali- ty of mind which made him, long after, a mark for the arrows of precifenefs and grimace. The law feems to have been his own choice, anti to this fcience he turned his attention. With an ardour peculiar t to himfelf, and an ambition to excel in whatever he undertook, he purfued it with fo much intenfenefs, that his health be- gan to be impaired. On this account, his phylicians advifed him to let out for the fcuth of France. By the time he reached Paris, he was happily fo far recovered, that he determined to renew his ftudies; but ft E h ?J] 1 fin of eve I wit fi® tier jit V being * Biographfa Britannica.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28408093_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
