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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    lie M-as not long, however, in again leaving Paris, when he went to Maringiies, a small town in Au- vergne, where he resinned the practice of medicine, and continued to carry it on with considerable suc- cess for some years. ^Ve are not informed of the can've of his leaving this place, but it was probably for the ])urpose of advancing his professional studies, for we find that he went to IMontpellier in lo37, and tof)k the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Another important event in his life occurred in the month of January of the succeeding year, 1538, when he married a young and beautiful woman of the name of Jeanne iSandre. As the lady was without fortune, and his own income scanty and precarious, his friends considered this step precipitate and injudi- cious, although, it may be remarked, he was ten years older than his friend and cotemjiorary Gesner, when that celebrated naturalist took a like step under very similar circumstances. Ilis prospects at this time were even more unfavourable than formerly, in consequence of the death of his eldest brother, in whom he had long found an indulgent and attectionate supporter. In these circumstances, liondelet was obliged for a time to become de- pendent on his wife's relatives. She had a sister married to a Florentine of considerable property, named .John Botegari, and as they had no family, they agreed to offer a home to Kondelet and his wife in their house for a period of four years. This offer was gratefully accepted, in the hope that before tnat time elapsed, some field would present itself, in