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

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Anecdote of Sir Walter

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

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

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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.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTICES OF MR. ABERNETHY........

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His natural talent for Lecturing, and great disin

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Anecdote of his losing a dinner to attend to an im

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MR. ABERNETHY-continued.

The Healing Art one and indivisible.......

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Abernethy an advocate for Post Mortem examinations
Anecdote of J. Hunter, relative to them
Necessity inculcated of "Keeping the Heart with all
diligence"...

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Abernethy's familiar mode of Lecturing, illustrated by
an Anecdote, and quotations from his Lectures
Acute sense of hearing of the Arabs.
Anecdote of a Madman who fancied he had a living

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Abernethy, equally with J. Hunter, favourable to the

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No country in which the gradations of rank are more

completely dovetailed than in England.
Habits of social life in England better than they were

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a century ago

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Still wretched state of the lowest orders

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Provisions better, as well as Cookery, in the present

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Great advantage of Temperance..

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

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CHAP. III.

MR. ABERNETHY-continued.

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Wholesome diet-what?
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

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

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

Fatal case from Concussion....

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Queen Dowager, when ill, recommended to take all

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

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

CHAP. VIII.

LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF

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SURGEONS

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Sir Wm. Blizzard, A.'s earliest professional instructor.. 177
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The Brain, the organ of sensation and volition
Arguments for the independence of the mind

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