Volume 1

The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
Date:
[1876]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was in a great measure dependent on his eldest brother, Albert, wlio seems to have always treated him with great liberality and kindness. In conse- quence of the assistance derived from this quarter, he was enabled to repair to Paris, and commence a regular course of study in Latin, Greek, and philo- sophy. He was gifted with great powers of memory, as well as much penetration and energy; his pro- gress was therefore more than usually rajiid, so much so, that in a short time he was sufhciently qualified to return to IMontjx'llier and take a medi- cal degree. This was in 1521). After a short re- sidence in his native city, he went to Pertuis, a small village in I’rovence, and took up his residence there as a medical practitioner. Ilis ]iractice, how- ever, was by no means lucrative, and he Avas obliged to instruct a few pupils in some of the elementary branches of education, for the jmrpose of obtaining some addition to his income. There being little o inducement for him to remain in this village, he was not long in leaving it, u])on which he returned to Paris, where he again a])])licd himself to his pro- fessional and classical studies, being desirous, in particular, of perfecting his acquaintance with the Greek tongue. Ab.out this time he fonued a friend- ship with Gonthier d’Andernaeh, took up his resi- dence in the house of that individual, and in concert with him, made great progress in anatomy. He likewise had under his charge a young ])upil be- longing to a family of distinction, who afterwards befriended him and assisted him in his difficulties.