Imagens da página
PDF
ePub
[blocks in formation]

Men's characters usually formed at the age of thirty..

88

Anecdote of Sir Walter ...

89

Letter to him communicating the Death of Dr. Collins
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Sir H. Davy .

91

93

......

Sir W. Scott's Journey to Italy, after a succession of

paralytic attacks, unavailing

His Return to Abbotsford, and Death

.....

94

95

Testimony of a learned American to his equanimity
and religious sincerity...

Wordsworth's beautiful lines on his Departure for Italy
His fame universal

Striking and unexpected testimony to it, from the pen
of Bishop Heber, and from that of the Rev. R.
Walsh, L.L.D.

MR. ABERNETHY.

CHAPTER I.

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][subsumed]

98-101

INTRODUCTORY NOTICES OF MR. ABERNETHY.

103

His natural talent for Lecturing, and great disin

terestedness

104

Anecdote of his losing a dinner to attend to an im

[blocks in formation]

MR. ABERNETHY-continued.

The Healing Art one and indivisible...

Page

109

Abernethy an advocate for Post Mortem examinations 111
Anecdote of J. Hunter, relative to them

112

Necessity inculcated of "Keeping the Heart with all

diligence".

113

Abernethy's familiar mode of Lecturing, illustrated by
an Anecdote, and quotations from his Lectures
Acute sense of hearing of the Arabs

......

....

114

115

Anecdote of a Madman who fancied he had a living

[blocks in formation]

120

120

Abernethy, equally with J. Hunter, favourable to the

study of Comparative Anatomy..

Abhorrence of unnecessary cruelty.

CHAP. II.

THE SUBJECT OF DIGESTION ENTERED UPON.

121

Experiments of the late Sir B. Harwood...

121

122

Caution necessary in its application

The removal of one principal cause of Apoplexy ac-
counted for

.....

124

Mode of living in Queen Elizabeth's day, compared

with the present

124

No country in which the gradations of rank are more
completely dovetailed than in England.

125

Habits of social life in England better than they were

a century ago

.....

126

Still wretched state of the lowest orders

126

Provisions better, as well as Cookery, in the present

day.....

128

Great advantage of Temperance....

128

A first-rate Cook nearly as rare as a first-rate Musi

cian

130

[blocks in formation]

Quality as well as quantity to be attended to
Value of a prolonged life resulting from Temperance..
Improved mode of Living since 1737

Extract from "The Choice of Hercules," by Prodicus
Death of Cornaro, with a second illustrative extract

133

135

......

137

138

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors]

Such maxims to be adopted in spirit, rather than letter 142
His anxious solicitude about his patients...

143

[blocks in formation]

The subject of "Injuries of the Head" resumed, 1804 156

Fatal case from Concussion....

157

[blocks in formation]

Queen Dowager, when ill, recommended to take all

161

162

164

.... 166

manner of medicines by strangers to her, Note
Case of Pancreatic Sarcoma, successfully treated by
Dr. Bouttatz....

166

168

Interesting case of Tuberculated Sarcoma

CHAP. VII.

ON THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS

.....

Abernethy's and Dr. Baillie's mode of prescribing, very
similar

172

174

CHAP. VIII.

LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF

SURGEONS

176

Sir Wm. Blizzard, A.'s earliest professional instructor..
Quotation from his first Lecture ...

177

177

[blocks in formation]
« AnteriorContinuar »